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Is there any way to get up-to-date coordinates on it? ESA's Estrack network seems to track it, but there seems to be no public API (https://www.esa.int/Enabling
by 7373737373 3y ago
Is there any way to get up-to-date coordinates on it? ESA's Estrack network seems to track it, but there seems to be no public API (https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_ground_stations_support_Chandrayaan-3_Moon_mission https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_ground_s...)
And asteroid-like orbital elements or NORAD TLE's don't seem to apply here (?) since
> A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the epoch.
which won't really be true in its later part of the orbit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#/media/File:Animation_of_Chandrayaan-3_around_Earth.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#/media/File:Anim...) and it is changing its orbit constantly
- 7373737373 3y agoGot an answer here: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/54239/how-can-non-earth-orbiting-satellite-coordinates-be-obtained-by-amateurs https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/54239/how-can-...
- nnain 3y agoThis is fascinating!
- 7373737373 3y agoMaybe join us at the https://deeprandomsurvey.org/ https://deeprandomsurvey.org/ then :) Also check out the Virtual Telescope Project, they are the channel when it comes to observing objects live: https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/news/ https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/news/ (we are mostly focused on asteroids)