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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   23084.68737410  .00004683  00000-0  24748-2 0  9998
2 00011  32.8708 217.0357 1462447 202.8782 149.9579 11.86853816395068
Epoch (UTC): 25 March 2023 16:29:49
Eccentricity: 0.1462447
inclination: 32.8708°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 2927 km
right ascension of ascending node: 217.0357°
argument of perigee: 202.8782°
revolutions per day: 11.86853816
mean anomaly at epoch: 149.9579°
orbit number at epoch: 39506

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

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