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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   24357.48198266  .00001460  00000-0  59571-3 0  9999
2 00020  33.3434  54.7162 1644752  33.2134 336.1651 11.60267542421639
Epoch (UTC): 22 December 2024 11:34:03
Eccentricity: 0.1644752
inclination: 33.3434°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3219 km
right ascension of ascending node: 54.7162°
argument of perigee: 33.2134°
revolutions per day: 11.60267542
mean anomaly at epoch: 336.1651°
orbit number at epoch: 42163

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

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