Vanguard 3
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American research satellite
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Parent body
- Earth
- Diameter
- 50.8
- Mass
- 42.9
- Orbital period
- 129
- Manufacturer
- United States Naval Research Laboratory
- Image
- Vanguard 3.jpg
- Height
- 116.8
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- orbital inclination
- 33.3
- Commons category
- Vanguard III
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1959-09-18
- space launch vehicle
- Vanguard
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 18
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.18987199
- powered by
- silver-zinc battery
- periapsis
- 512
- apoapsis
- 3744
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