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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   24252.78656904  .00005599  00000-0  22394-2 0  9993
2 00020  33.3470  70.4377 1648728 193.7788 161.1911 11.59659169409477
Epoch (UTC): 08 September 2024 18:52:39
Eccentricity: 0.1648728
inclination: 33.3470°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3226 km
right ascension of ascending node: 70.4377°
argument of perigee: 193.7788°
revolutions per day: 11.59659169
mean anomaly at epoch: 161.1911°
orbit number at epoch: 40947

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

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