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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   23091.85013084  .00004005  00000-0  16105-2 0  9991
2 00020  33.3539 151.9922 1659868 272.0773  69.1442 11.57208748348486
Epoch (UTC): 01 April 2023 20:24:11
Eccentricity: 0.1659868
inclination: 33.3539°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3249 km
right ascension of ascending node: 151.9922°
argument of perigee: 272.0773°
revolutions per day: 11.57208748
mean anomaly at epoch: 69.1442°
orbit number at epoch: 34848

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

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