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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    20U 59007A   23266.65029092  .00001048  00000-0  42893-3 0  9997
2    20  33.3406 247.2193 1656393 122.3465 254.8320 11.57829584368772
Epoch (UTC): 23 September 2023 15:36:25
Eccentricity: 0.1656393
inclination: 33.3406°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3242 km
right ascension of ascending node: 247.2193°
argument of perigee: 122.3465°
revolutions per day: 11.57829584
mean anomaly at epoch: 254.8320°
orbit number at epoch: 36877

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

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