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Indeed, yes, it's astonishing. 5cm, for an object 20'000 km above ground.

http://ccar.colorado.edu/asen5050/projects/projects_2008/xia...

The satellite position and clock correction are similar in scale as shown in figure 1 and 3. However, as described in previous sections, the accuracy of the satellite position calculated from broadcast ephemeris is about 160 cm and 5cm for the precise ephemeris.



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