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by dhsysusbsjsi 556 days ago
Excuse my ignorance but how big of a lookup table would you need to achieve the same outcome ?
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LUTs are commonly used in geodesy applications on or near the Earth's surface. The full multipole model is used for orbital applications to account for the way that local lumpiness in Earth's mass distribution is smoothed out with increasing distance from the surface. It might be reasonable to build a 3D LUT for use at Starlink scale or higher, but certainly not for individual satellites.