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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   24256.74645230  .00009251  00000-0  36976-2 0  9993
2    20  33.3506  56.2349 1648683 214.9312 133.1342 11.59710494409967
Epoch (UTC): 12 September 2024 17:54:53
Eccentricity: 0.1648683
inclination: 33.3506°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3225 km
right ascension of ascending node: 56.2349°
argument of perigee: 214.9312°
revolutions per day: 11.59710494
mean anomaly at epoch: 133.1342°
orbit number at epoch: 40996

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

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