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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   24316.56153444  .00001731  00000-0  90529-3 0  9995
2 00011  32.8675 128.0600 1453783 344.4313  11.5739 11.88906390466057
Epoch (UTC): 11 November 2024 13:28:36
Eccentricity: 0.1453783
inclination: 32.8675°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 128.0600°
argument of perigee: 344.4313°
revolutions per day: 11.88906390
mean anomaly at epoch: 11.5739°
orbit number at epoch: 46605

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

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