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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 00011U 59001A   24311.85605936  .00002015  00000-0  10460-2 0  9991
2 00011  32.8706 145.8257 1454298 317.7210  31.9769 11.88889868465494
Epoch (UTC): 06 November 2024 20:32:43
Eccentricity: 0.1454298
inclination: 32.8706°
perigee height: 551 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 145.8257°
argument of perigee: 317.7210°
revolutions per day: 11.88889868
mean anomaly at epoch: 31.9769°
orbit number at epoch: 46549

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

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