I'm very confused. With all the tracking done by our military and our highly skilled See-Sat detectives, how could the collision have been a surprise? An important component of tracking is to predict orbital paths, is it not? The only thing that makes sense to me is some kind of sudden orbital change. I hope I'm not off topic here, but I always assumed that observing, tracking, and predicting objects in orbit were all strongly associated. And I'm pretty stunned by the whole thing. Susan Kaltenbach PS - I haven't been receiving FPSPACE messages and I'm starved for information. I hope it's just me and that their server isn't down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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