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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 00020U 59007A   23338.41078063  .00000977  00000-0  39383-3 0  9993
2 00020  33.3453 350.5959 1656435 144.4630 227.8508 11.57987415377066
Epoch (UTC): 04 December 2023 09:51:31
Eccentricity: 0.1656435
inclination: 33.3453°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 350.5959°
argument of perigee: 144.4630°
revolutions per day: 11.57987415
mean anomaly at epoch: 227.8508°
orbit number at epoch: 37706

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

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