6 Jan
2022
6 Jan
'22
3:24 p.m.
Use the NASA/JPL Horizons system to track JWST and other objects that are not in a "normal" earth orbit. JWST is essentially in solar orbit, perturbed by the Earth. TLE and the underlying "simplified perturbations models" that are used by GPredict and the like don't work for solar orbits.
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html
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