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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   24309.25137065  .00002439  00000-0  12644-2 0  9991
2 00011  32.8728 155.6576 1454538 302.9407  43.9423 11.88880026465185
Epoch (UTC): 04 November 2024 06:01:58
Eccentricity: 0.1454538
inclination: 32.8728°
perigee height: 551 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 155.6576°
argument of perigee: 302.9407°
revolutions per day: 11.88880026
mean anomaly at epoch: 43.9423°
orbit number at epoch: 46518

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

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