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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   23337.46239291  .00001189  00000-0  48054-3 0  9990
2 00020  33.3452 353.9883 1656426 139.4111 234.2570 11.57986463376956
Epoch (UTC): 03 December 2023 11:05:50
Eccentricity: 0.1656426
inclination: 33.3452°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 353.9883°
argument of perigee: 139.4111°
revolutions per day: 11.57986463
mean anomaly at epoch: 234.2570°
orbit number at epoch: 37695

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

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