RE: question about Kosmos 2406

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 16:00:54 EDT

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    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
    
    
    
    
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