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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   24306.89887056  .00002002  00000-0  10321-2 0  9996
2 00011  32.8746 164.5369 1454736 289.5957  55.3565 11.88868074464906
Epoch (UTC): 01 November 2024 21:34:22
Eccentricity: 0.1454736
inclination: 32.8746°
perigee height: 551 km
apogee height: 2911 km
right ascension of ascending node: 164.5369°
argument of perigee: 289.5957°
revolutions per day: 11.88868074
mean anomaly at epoch: 55.3565°
orbit number at epoch: 46490

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

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