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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   25137.70308767  .00001247  00000-0  50990-3 0  9999
2 00020  33.3412 249.5561 1643024  95.1737 283.7617 11.60647453438628
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2025 16:52:26
Eccentricity: 0.1643024
inclination: 33.3412°
perigee height: 508 km
apogee height: 3216 km
right ascension of ascending node: 249.5561°
argument of perigee: 95.1737°
revolutions per day: 11.60647453
mean anomaly at epoch: 283.7617°
orbit number at epoch: 43862

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

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