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(38.9356°N, 78.4524°W)
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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   23343.32472560  .00000429  00000-0  16680-3 0  9996
2 00020  33.3466 333.0182 1656494 170.6368 192.9537 11.57993013377636
Epoch (UTC): 09 December 2023 07:47:36
Eccentricity: 0.1656494
inclination: 33.3466°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 333.0182°
argument of perigee: 170.6368°
revolutions per day: 11.57993013
mean anomaly at epoch: 192.9537°
orbit number at epoch: 37763

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

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