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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   24314.09579859  .00003202  00000-0  12890-2 0  9998
2    20  33.3402 210.4652 1645669 161.3031 205.6056 11.60101125416622
Epoch (UTC): 09 November 2024 02:17:56
Eccentricity: 0.1645669
inclination: 33.3402°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3221 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.4652°
argument of perigee: 161.3031°
revolutions per day: 11.60101125
mean anomaly at epoch: 205.6056°
orbit number at epoch: 41662

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

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