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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   25197.93333347  .00001006  00000-0  41729-3 0  9995
2 00020  33.3435  33.1602 1641120  57.4114 317.4440 11.60752302445628
Epoch (UTC): 16 July 2025 22:24:00
Eccentricity: 0.1641120
inclination: 33.3435°
perigee height: 509 km
apogee height: 3214 km
right ascension of ascending node: 33.1602°
argument of perigee: 57.4114°
revolutions per day: 11.60752302
mean anomaly at epoch: 317.4440°
orbit number at epoch: 44562

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

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