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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   24306.86657724  .00003498  00000-0  14147-2 0  9996
2 00020  33.3408 236.4162 1646066 122.6559 254.3614 11.60050753415753
Epoch (UTC): 01 November 2024 20:47:52
Eccentricity: 0.1646066
inclination: 33.3408°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3221 km
right ascension of ascending node: 236.4162°
argument of perigee: 122.6559°
revolutions per day: 11.60050753
mean anomaly at epoch: 254.3614°
orbit number at epoch: 41575

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

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