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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by mlindner on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:36PM (#28250438)
> It seems to me that Starlink is quite precise (or optimistic, I can't tell) at locating their satellites which makes sense.

The satellites have GPS on board. If your car can be placed to a resolution of meters, so can satellites. That is true of most satellites as well.

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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by lmilcin on Friday August 20, 2021 @05:58PM (#28251873)
It is one thing to be able to locate stationary car and another to locate satellite that moves at 8km/s and yet another to predict the minimum distance between two satellites intersecting at 12km/s.
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