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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   24254.76648113  .00005615  00000-0  22429-2 0  9994
2 00020  33.3485  63.3365 1648690 204.3541 146.9581 11.59682040409709
Epoch (UTC): 10 September 2024 18:23:43
Eccentricity: 0.1648690
inclination: 33.3485°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3226 km
right ascension of ascending node: 63.3365°
argument of perigee: 204.3541°
revolutions per day: 11.59682040
mean anomaly at epoch: 146.9581°
orbit number at epoch: 40970

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

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