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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   24280.51499586  .00004393  00000-0  17636-2 0  9990
2 00020  33.3487 330.9903 1647456 341.8252  12.9598 11.59883126412697
Epoch (UTC): 06 October 2024 12:21:35
Eccentricity: 0.1647456
inclination: 33.3487°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3224 km
right ascension of ascending node: 330.9903°
argument of perigee: 341.8252°
revolutions per day: 11.59883126
mean anomaly at epoch: 12.9598°
orbit number at epoch: 41269

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

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