[FPSPACE] Soyuz entry

[Keith Gottschalk]

    To laypersons, there's one extraordinary revelation about this.

   During at least the Cold War, both the USSR & the USA maintained the
greatest radar arrays in world history, alert 24/7 for over a third of a
century, watching for enemy bombers, plane & missile alike, that might
be aiming at them. Today, one imagines that is supplemented by "look
down" radars.

   Yet in the 21st century, when both a 100 tonne Columbia "warhead",
and a 4 tonne Soyuz "warhead", is streaking downwards to their
homelands* , neither superpower can track it (or its plasma sheath)
continuously on their radars!
They remain ignorant for perhaps twenty minutes about where exactly a
100 tonne or a 4 tonne "warhead" has disappeared to over their
territory?

* I assume that 100 kms altitude in neighbouring Kazakhstan is still in
line of sight of Russian defence radars, as well as any they are still
permitted to continue operating within sovereign Kazakhstan.


> Finally there still remains the question about telemetry and
tracking: 
> why wasn't the DM separation failure immediately picked up by mission


Keith
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