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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   24252.18399286  .00005822  00000-0  23300-2 0  9991
2    20  33.3463  72.5990 1648722 190.5600 165.5804 11.59652612409436
Epoch (UTC): 08 September 2024 04:24:56
Eccentricity: 0.1648722
inclination: 33.3463°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3226 km
right ascension of ascending node: 72.5990°
argument of perigee: 190.5600°
revolutions per day: 11.59652612
mean anomaly at epoch: 165.5804°
orbit number at epoch: 40943

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

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