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firesteelrain on July 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Get the location of the ISS using DNS

You can derive Lat and Lon and Altitude on Earth. Thats the one point of the TLEs. But they aren’t GPS derived coordinates.

echoangle on July 6, 2025 [–]

Yes, but you don't need GPS derived coordinates for the DNS LOC entry.

firesteelrain on July 6, 2025 | [–]

Correct because the site referenced uses N2YO which is using NASA provided TLEs which some backend that provides an API. GPS and TLEs are not the same.

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