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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   23332.46119149  .00001051  00000-0  42952-3 0  9993
2 00020  33.3454  11.8747 1656411 112.7777 265.5939 11.57973967376370
Epoch (UTC): 28 November 2023 11:04:06
Eccentricity: 0.1656411
inclination: 33.3454°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 11.8747°
argument of perigee: 112.7777°
revolutions per day: 11.57973967
mean anomaly at epoch: 265.5939°
orbit number at epoch: 37637

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

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