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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   23334.44455680  .00001215  00000-0  49437-3 0  9993
2    20  33.3453   4.7816 1656414 123.3388 253.6836 11.57979379376632
Epoch (UTC): 30 November 2023 10:40:09
Eccentricity: 0.1656414
inclination: 33.3453°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 4.7816°
argument of perigee: 123.3388°
revolutions per day: 11.57979379
mean anomaly at epoch: 253.6836°
orbit number at epoch: 37663

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

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