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How accurately (maximum possible accuracy) can future satellite positions be predicted?
Agencies/organizations who own/operate satellites want to know their future positions after a certain amount of time. We know that models of satellite dynamics are imperfect and also perturbations ...
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How accurate are modern ephemerides, and how does their accuracy degrade over time?
I was reading about what is involved in making an ephemeris and wondered about this. Feeling I'd read pieces that extrapolated orbits over many thousands of years, I looked for an example and found ...
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