Vanguard 3 - 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 00020U 59007A   13144.78736596  .00000460  00000-0  17395-3 0  2279
2 00020 033.3569 003.8030 1681829 274.8438 066.3005 11.52674179932207
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 18:53:48
Eccentricity: 0.1681829
inclination: 33.3569°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3292 km
right ascension of ascending node: 3.8030°
argument of perigee: 274.8438°
revolutions per day: 11.52674179
mean anomaly at epoch: 66.3005°
orbit number at epoch: 93220

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

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