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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   23089.08831744  .00004668  00000-0  18805-2 0  9998
2    20  33.3531 161.8522 1659847 257.4034  83.6641 11.57186233348192
Epoch (UTC): 30 March 2023 02:07:10
Eccentricity: 0.1659847
inclination: 33.3531°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3249 km
right ascension of ascending node: 161.8522°
argument of perigee: 257.4034°
revolutions per day: 11.57186233
mean anomaly at epoch: 83.6641°
orbit number at epoch: 34819

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

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