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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   23088.97730320  .00004221  00000-0  22202-2 0  9998
2    11  32.8732 200.8965 1462783 227.1472 119.6760 11.86887114737311
Epoch (UTC): 29 March 2023 23:27:18
Eccentricity: 0.1462783
inclination: 32.8732°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2927 km
right ascension of ascending node: 200.8965°
argument of perigee: 227.1472°
revolutions per day: 11.86887114
mean anomaly at epoch: 119.6760°
orbit number at epoch: 73731

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

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