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Vanguard 2 - Orbit

View from above orbital plane
View from above orbital plane
View from above satellite
View from above satellite

Ground track
Ground track

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1    11U 59001A   24312.86435582  .00001848  00000-0  96045-3 0  9998
2    11  32.8700 142.0193 1454198 323.4439  27.4970 11.88893206807352
Epoch (UTC): 07 November 2024 20:44:40
Eccentricity: 0.1454198
inclination: 32.8700°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 142.0193°
argument of perigee: 323.4439°
revolutions per day: 11.88893206
mean anomaly at epoch: 27.4970°
orbit number at epoch: 80735

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow,  

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