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   13168.44842979  .00000110  00000-0  51771-4 0  2450
2 00020 033.3438 279.9359 1681174 039.7081 331.5231 11.52686001934945
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 10:45:44
Eccentricity: 0.1681174
inclination: 33.3438°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3291 km
right ascension of ascending node: 279.9359°
argument of perigee: 39.7081°
revolutions per day: 11.52686001
mean anomaly at epoch: 331.5231°
orbit number at epoch: 93494

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

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