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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   23160.70728326  .00001194  00000-0  46722-3 0  9999
2 00020  33.3552 265.9596 1658908 278.3913  63.2766 11.57605483356461
Epoch (UTC): 09 June 2023 16:58:29
Eccentricity: 0.1658908
inclination: 33.3552°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3246 km
right ascension of ascending node: 265.9596°
argument of perigee: 278.3913°
revolutions per day: 11.57605483
mean anomaly at epoch: 63.2766°
orbit number at epoch: 35646

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

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