Abstract The dragging of inertial frames is a consequence of Einstein's General Relativity. ...The dragging of the orbital plane (and the orbital angular momentum) of a test particle orbiting the field of a rotating body is included among the various effects due to the gravitomagnetic field. This spaper proposes a new Lageos-type satellite (Lageos 3) which is physically identical to Lageos-1 and is placed in an orbit with identical altitude and eccentricity and with an inclination supplementary to...