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   13143.05437702  .00000447  00000-0  16797-3 0  2264
2 00020 033.3580 009.9434 1681918 265.7027 075.0457 11.52672742932007
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 01:18:18
Eccentricity: 0.1681918
inclination: 33.3580°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3292 km
right ascension of ascending node: 9.9434°
argument of perigee: 265.7027°
revolutions per day: 11.52672742
mean anomaly at epoch: 75.0457°
orbit number at epoch: 93200

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

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