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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   24357.88623326  .00001217  00000-0  62177-3 0  9993
2 00011  32.8761 332.0339 1453243 219.0378 129.5986 11.88986910470974
Epoch (UTC): 22 December 2024 21:16:10
Eccentricity: 0.1453243
inclination: 32.8761°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2909 km
right ascension of ascending node: 332.0339°
argument of perigee: 219.0378°
revolutions per day: 11.88986910
mean anomaly at epoch: 129.5986°
orbit number at epoch: 47097

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

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