Detection genuinely improved. Catalogues have grown, radar and optical coverage is denser, and small-object tracking is no longer hopeless.
The alert is not the problem to solve
A satellite operator receiving forty conjunction warnings a week, most with probabilities too uncertain to justify fuel, is not better informed. They are saturated.
What is missing is agreed thresholds and a coordination protocol for who manoeuvres. Two operators both dodging the same object have twice caused the near-miss they were avoiding.
Better data made the physics tractable. The governance is still the open problem.
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