So the takeaway I get is that these two databases should be cross linked so this doesn’t happen again. Maybe there’s a community of software developers who could help.
Quick! Someone write the Falsehoods Programmers Make About Space article.
If only there were some sort of article explaining the need for transparency between organizations regarding these things.
That would be great. Instead, we got an article vaguely demanding "transparency" for "untracked" objects, when the motivating example for the article is an object that was actually very well tracked and was launched with millions of witnesses live on stream.