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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   23087.62120636  .00004153  00000-0  16719-2 0  9998
2 00020  33.3524 167.0901 1659823 249.6069  91.9014 11.57172738347996
Epoch (UTC): 28 March 2023 14:54:32
Eccentricity: 0.1659823
inclination: 33.3524°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3249 km
right ascension of ascending node: 167.0901°
argument of perigee: 249.6069°
revolutions per day: 11.57172738
mean anomaly at epoch: 91.9014°
orbit number at epoch: 34799

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

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