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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   25163.16460124  .00000662  00000-0  25206-3 0  9996
2    20  33.3480 158.0710 1642890 231.4223 112.7593 11.60697611441616
Epoch (UTC): 12 June 2025 03:57:01
Eccentricity: 0.1642890
inclination: 33.3480°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3215 km
right ascension of ascending node: 158.0710°
argument of perigee: 231.4223°
revolutions per day: 11.60697611
mean anomaly at epoch: 112.7593°
orbit number at epoch: 44161

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

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