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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   25321.27955887  .00003548  00000-0  14240-2 0  9990
2 00020  33.3451 309.7598 1639586 357.7381   1.6456 11.61481611459961
Epoch (UTC): 17 November 2025 06:42:33
Eccentricity: 0.1639586
inclination: 33.3451°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3208 km
right ascension of ascending node: 309.7598°
argument of perigee: 357.7381°
revolutions per day: 11.61481611
mean anomaly at epoch: 1.6456°
orbit number at epoch: 45996

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

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