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   13142.01463878  .00000376  00000-0  13867-3 0  2257
2 00020 033.3585 013.6272 1681941 260.2189 080.5235 11.52672258931881
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 00:21:04
Eccentricity: 0.1681941
inclination: 33.3585°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3292 km
right ascension of ascending node: 13.6272°
argument of perigee: 260.2189°
revolutions per day: 11.52672258
mean anomaly at epoch: 80.5235°
orbit number at epoch: 93188

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

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