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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   24317.88190845  .00002231  00000-0  89191-3 0  9992
2 00020  33.3428 196.8712 1645727 181.5554 177.9379 11.60122616417036
Epoch (UTC): 12 November 2024 21:09:56
Eccentricity: 0.1645727
inclination: 33.3428°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3221 km
right ascension of ascending node: 196.8712°
argument of perigee: 181.5554°
revolutions per day: 11.60122616
mean anomaly at epoch: 177.9379°
orbit number at epoch: 41703

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

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