Fam. F. de Graaff asked about the recent confusion regarding the names of Russian satellites. Jonathan McDowell discusses the matter in the draft of his Jonathan's Space Report: http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/latest.html "The Russian Space Forces have renamed Kosmos-2405 as Molniya-1T; Kosmos-2406 has been renamed Raduga-1. The US-PU satellite launched on May 28 was named Kosmos-2405, not Kosmos-2407 as I reported last issue. The folks at Space Command are also competing in the 'confusing designation' game. There are now two debris objects called 1968-097CQ (SSN 05279 and SSN 05515) and two objects called 1968-097CY (SSN 05432 and SSN 05632). In each case one object previously had a designation in the 1970-089 series; both 1968-097 and 1970-089 launches have large numbers of debris objects in similar orbits resulting from antisatellite weapons tests. The logic of the new duplicate designations escapes me. A Tselina-2 electronic intelligence satellite for the Russian Defense Ministry was launched on Jun 10 and has been given the name Kosmos-2406. Launch vehicle was a Yuzhnoe Zenit-2." Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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