  The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracking of the SpaceX
Starlink satellite launch on February 03, 2022 is reviewed. Of the 49 Starlink
satellites released into orbit, 38 were eventually lost. Thirty-two of the
satellites were never tracked by NORAD. There have been three articles written
proposing physical mechanisms to explain the satellite losses. It is argued
that none of the proposed mechanisms can explain the immediate loss of 32 of
the 49 satellites. The non-availability of telemetry data from the lost
satellites has hindered the search for a physical mechanism to explain the
density increase observed in a short time interval.
