[alancarp]

Here's the real problem with spy satellites - or the Hubble telescope, for that matter: The shuttle is moving - at 17,000 MPH in orbit. Nothing we have in orbit that has a camera is designed to track objects at anything near that speed.

HERE'S MY QUESTION FOR NASA: Which came first: the heating elevations or the flight control corrections that continued to a degree unprecedented in the program? I haven't heard that on the timeline discussions.

[Karsus]

What about a ground based telescope? We must have something that could have seen the shuttle.

[Don Munn]

Good Question on what came first, heat or correction.

As they continue to break out the data from the sensors that will be known.