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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   25172.19873049  .00000555  00000-0  20979-3 0  9996
2    20  33.3521 125.6200 1643044 279.7272  62.2291 11.60709996442667
Epoch (UTC): 21 June 2025 04:46:10
Eccentricity: 0.1643044
inclination: 33.3521°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3215 km
right ascension of ascending node: 125.6200°
argument of perigee: 279.7272°
revolutions per day: 11.60709996
mean anomaly at epoch: 62.2291°
orbit number at epoch: 44266

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

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