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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   23150.52764597  .00001461  00000-0  57475-3 0  9992
2    20  33.3529 302.3313 1658932 224.2557 121.2964 11.57578110355313
Epoch (UTC): 30 May 2023 12:39:48
Eccentricity: 0.1658932
inclination: 33.3529°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3246 km
right ascension of ascending node: 302.3313°
argument of perigee: 224.2557°
revolutions per day: 11.57578110
mean anomaly at epoch: 121.2964°
orbit number at epoch: 35531

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

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