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Originally Posted by gary
Hi Steve,
What "live tracking" servers? 
For a piece of space junk that isn't transmitting any of its own telemetry, continual live tracking doesn't exist.
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I understand tracking the path mathematically but the thing that threw me off was the altitude data which varied a lot but was slowly going down. I was keeping tabs on that so that when it dropped near the 100km reentry zone I could be outside if the path was overhead at that time but that stopped at 135km altitude.
They should have hired some video game programmers to write a reentry sequence to be played as soon as news of the burn up was received.