On Sep 24, 2:22*pm, Home Guy wrote:
George wrote:
Except when a
satellite is tumbling toward you and forces you to reveal that you don't
have this detection capability.

How does that force them to reveal anything? Even perfect tracking of
the intact satellite would only give people a few minutes warning and
a very broad idea of where the chunks MIGHT land (maybe within a swath
a hundred by a thousand miles (WAGOMP)). There would be almost no
point to making an announcement other than to give people a reason to
panic for a few minutes before nothing interesting happened...