Anyone who believes the orbit must be observable in a human lifetime.
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You just made that part up. No one said in a single person’s lifetime except you.
From your post:
“We will not have been able to observe that for another 163 years.”
It does NOT need to be “observed”!
It is scientifically PREDICTABLE!!!
Get it?
Course corrections are made because of variations and uncertainties associated with spacecraft performance.