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Sorry, I know some of the ways measurements are taken for satellite orbits, but not who actually does them or how that information makes its way to JPL.

SPICE itself is a C package with a number of wrappers in other languages. JPL use it, along with numerical integrator and orbit determination code to generate SPICE "kernels", IE: …

Im a developer for the upcoming space telescope NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor). I actually work quite a bit with a number of people on the team up at JPL, Horizons is th…

Here is a simulation I did in response to your comment, this is ~6 million impactors and their on sky velocity as they approach Earth. Dotted black line is our expected detectabili…

I work on the NEO Surveyor space telescope, doing orbit simulations of asteroids/comets and predicting expected observations of objects like these. If you look: https://www.minorpl…

I work on NEO Surveyor, I replied to the parent comment largely agreeing with you, however I wanted to mention that we do rely on apparent motion for determining if a source is mov…

I actually work on NEO Surveyor telescope (surveying for dangerous asteroids), writing the simulation code use to track expected performance. So simulating +20 million asteroids an…

Really exciting to see the pictures. I helped write code for a paper predicting the size of Dinkinesh a few weeks before the flyby. It's so small we had to overlay multiple images …