At 04:48 28-12-97 -0500, you wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 cosmos33@ilink.nis.za wrote: > >> BTW - How many Cosmos satelites have ever been sent up? >> (Since I only see cosmos rockets all the time) > >2348 as of a few days ago. > Almost true but there were 3 other Kosmos satellites which didn't receive an 'official' number: Kosmos U1: 1966-88A/2437: FOBS test Kosmos U2: 1966-101A/2536: FOBS test Kosmos U3: 1985-53A/15842: Suborbital Zenit test with some fragments reaching orbit. So this would make 2351 Kosmos satellites. Tristan Cools tcools@nic.INbe.net BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites Observing at: Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N Rijckevelde: 3.2867E/51.2054N Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N