Ron Dantowitz wrote: > So it [Intercosmos 19] is NOT 3m long, but perhaps long/thin antennae, yielding a > small RCS? > Comments from any of our lurking surveillance deities? Searching through several books I have on soviet spacecraft no pictures of IC 19 were found. In 'The Encyclopedia of soviet spacecraft' by Douglas Hart, 1987, Bison Books London, ISBN 0 86124 350 1, only a description of IC 19 appears on page 34. IC 19 joined the IC 18 sub-satellite Magion and two US geophysical satellites in the study of the Earth's magnetosphere. Also Swedish, French, Australian and Soviet balloon- and soundingrocket-carried instrument packages were used. The instruments were: -Bulgaria: an optical spectrometer; instruments for determining electron temperatures and densities in the magnetosphere; -Czechoslovakia: high and low frequency probes for determining distribution and temperature of thermal electrons; -Poland: a radiospectrometer; -USSR: an ionospheric station with instrumentation for collection data on photo- electric pulses and electron showers, a Mayak transmitter and a device for analyzing plasma flows. I suspect several of the above instruments could or should be on booms to avoid interaction with the spacecraft. -- Greetings and clear skies Leo Barhorst Alkmaar The Netherlands 52.65 North 4.47 East 3 m ASL Every day I wonder about what I see in the sky