[July 4th]

Not a heat spike within the shuttle - from the US spy sats. Our early warning satellites picked up an atmospheric "spike" where the shuttle was.

[Movemout]

"Not a heat spike within the shuttle - from the US spy sats. Our early warning satellites picked up an atmospheric "spike" where the shuttle was. "

I think a hunk of metal traveling at the speed of the shuttle burning up in the atmosphere would generate a "spike" easily seen by any of the DSP assets in position to observe the event.