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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   25339.32788492  .00000586  00000-0  31139-3 0  9991
2 00011  32.8655  98.6605 1447578  33.9034 334.6137 11.90140724512368
Epoch (UTC): 05 December 2025 07:52:09
Eccentricity: 0.1447578
inclination: 32.8655°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2898 km
right ascension of ascending node: 98.6605°
argument of perigee: 33.9034°
revolutions per day: 11.90140724
mean anomaly at epoch: 334.6137°
orbit number at epoch: 51236

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

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