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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   23337.11751720  .00001074  00000-0  43425-3 0  9998
2    20  33.3450 355.2226 1656499 137.5729 236.5551 11.57985230376948
Epoch (UTC): 03 December 2023 02:49:13
Eccentricity: 0.1656499
inclination: 33.3450°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 355.2226°
argument of perigee: 137.5729°
revolutions per day: 11.57985230
mean anomaly at epoch: 236.5551°
orbit number at epoch: 37694

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

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