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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 00020U 59007A   23336.42774584  .00001683  00000-0  68153-3 0  9995
2 00020  33.3452 357.6889 1656407 133.9008 241.0870 11.57987419376834
Epoch (UTC): 02 December 2023 10:15:57
Eccentricity: 0.1656407
inclination: 33.3452°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 357.6889°
argument of perigee: 133.9008°
revolutions per day: 11.57987419
mean anomaly at epoch: 241.0870°
orbit number at epoch: 37683

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

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