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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   25341.92000231  .00002134  00000-0  86020-3 0  9994
2 00020  33.3396 235.4903 1639236 108.3176 270.2152 11.61584491462363
Epoch (UTC): 07 December 2025 22:04:48
Eccentricity: 0.1639236
inclination: 33.3396°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3207 km
right ascension of ascending node: 235.4903°
argument of perigee: 108.3176°
revolutions per day: 11.61584491
mean anomaly at epoch: 270.2152°
orbit number at epoch: 46236

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

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