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#7
Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
Why is it so hard to calculate where the satellites are with reasonable accuracy? If you know their position in a point in time it's just a mater of doing some math to get their position at any moment in the future (the far the two moments are the worse the accuracy is, but i wouldn't expect it to get too bad in just a couple of days, and whenever there is a connection to the internet it can re-zero the positions to a more accurate measurement.
Are the satellites geostationary? If that's the case, you can't do any math to find them. Then you need to get some other fix, like using 2G/3G antennas.