Hello again, Who will see the first flashes of the COMETS satellite ? Florida Today reported : "The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) terminated operation of the Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test Satellite (COMETS) Kakehashi on Aug 6, 1999 at 23:42. The satellite was launched by the H-II Launch Vehicle No. 5 on Feb 21, 1998. The fuel tank for the hydrazine has been emptied out before operation was terminated. The final orbit : Height of apogee: 17,700 km Height of perigee: 1,060 km Orbital period: 5hr 28min Orbital inclination: 30.1 degrees" Official web site : http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/Satellites/e/comets_e.html -- Daniel Deak St-Bonaventure, Québec COSPAR site 1745 : 45.9483°N, 72.6539°W, 58 m., UTC-4:00 E-mail : dan.deak@sympatico.ca French language satellite web site : http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.deak/