[stavros]

> “believe it is unlikely that the satellite will be recoverable.”

Why do these announcements have to be so hedgy? The satellite is in twenty pieces, I'd think that with the probability of spontaneous reconstruction being so low, we're fairly safe to say "will not be recoverable".

[dylan604]

Is it only in 20 pieces, or did 20 pieces break off? Sudden unscheduled disassembly can happen differently. The probability is that there are 20 pieces they are able to track and many many more pieces that are smaller

[barryrandall]

Because it was posted on the internet, where new and exciting forms of pedantry are invented every day.