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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   25318.35490720  .00004072  00000-0  16295-2 0  9990
2    20  33.3473 320.2845 1639842 342.0680  12.8071 11.61459710459627
Epoch (UTC): 14 November 2025 08:31:03
Eccentricity: 0.1639842
inclination: 33.3473°
perigee height: 507 km
apogee height: 3209 km
right ascension of ascending node: 320.2845°
argument of perigee: 342.0680°
revolutions per day: 11.61459710
mean anomaly at epoch: 12.8071°
orbit number at epoch: 45962

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

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