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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   25074.19518558  .00001399  00000-0  56594-3 0  9997
2    20  33.3401 117.6886 1644525 115.5193 262.4335 11.60495111431278
Epoch (UTC): 15 March 2025 04:41:04
Eccentricity: 0.1644525
inclination: 33.3401°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 117.6886°
argument of perigee: 115.5193°
revolutions per day: 11.60495111
mean anomaly at epoch: 262.4335°
orbit number at epoch: 43127

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

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