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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   23340.39367355  .00000716  00000-0  28621-3 0  9992
2    20  33.3456 343.5031 1656424 155.0247 214.0628 11.57990240377322
Epoch (UTC): 06 December 2023 09:26:53
Eccentricity: 0.1656424
inclination: 33.3456°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3241 km
right ascension of ascending node: 343.5031°
argument of perigee: 155.0247°
revolutions per day: 11.57990240
mean anomaly at epoch: 214.0628°
orbit number at epoch: 37732

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

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