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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   24311.85839914  .00003225  00000-0  13009-2 0  9998
2 00020  33.3397 218.4983 1645719 149.3418 221.4655 11.60086799416339
Epoch (UTC): 06 November 2024 20:36:05
Eccentricity: 0.1645719
inclination: 33.3397°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3221 km
right ascension of ascending node: 218.4983°
argument of perigee: 149.3418°
revolutions per day: 11.60086799
mean anomaly at epoch: 221.4655°
orbit number at epoch: 41633

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

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