Please look out for a Kosmos-3M launch from Plesetsk on Dec 24 - according to my sources - which hopefully are correct. If you check Keith Stein's list of upcoming launches at launchspace.com the payload is Signal 1 and Signal 2! Any ideas about what that is? A LEO satcom system? Sven ---------------------------------------------------- Mr Sven Grahn Rattviksvagen 44, S-192 71 Sollentuna, Sweden Tel: +46 8 7541904, svengrahn@wineasy.se http://www.users.wineasy.se/svengrahn/ ----------------------------------------------------