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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   25136.75652080  .00000939  00000-0  38586-3 0  9997
2 00020  33.3413 252.9564 1643083  90.1104 288.6953 11.60643752438511
Epoch (UTC): 16 May 2025 18:09:23
Eccentricity: 0.1643083
inclination: 33.3413°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3216 km
right ascension of ascending node: 252.9564°
argument of perigee: 90.1104°
revolutions per day: 11.60643752
mean anomaly at epoch: 288.6953°
orbit number at epoch: 43851

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

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