Dear Petr,
 Thank you very much for your letter of 28 July which just reached
me. I very much appreciate the continued supply of information, and
I have now updated my web site to reflect the new data.

 For your information, I summarize the most important new omissions
from the data supplied to you by member states below.
 
  Best regards,

   Jonathan McDowell
   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Grossly overdue submissions:
 Mexico, Germany, Australia, Brazil

Newly delinquent registrations:

PRC          1996-48A          Zhongxing 7            1996 Aug 18
PRC          1996-59A          FSW                    1996 Oct 20
PRC          1997-21A          Zhongxing 6            1997 May 11
PRC          1997-29A          Feng Yun 2             1997 Jun 10
US           1996-35A          Intelsat 709           1996 Jun 15
US           1997-09A          Intelsat 801           1997 Mar  1
US           1997-30A          Iridium 9              1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30B          Iridium 10             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30C          Iridium 11             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30D          Iridium 12             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30E          Iridium 13             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30F          Iridium 14             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-30G          Iridium 16             1997 Jun 18
US           1997-31A          Intelsat 802           1997 Jun 25
UK           1996-20A          Inmarsat III F1        1996 Apr  3
Indonesia    1996-30A          Palapa C2              1996 May 16
Luxembourg   1996-21A          Astra 1F               1996 Apr  8
Mexico       1996-52B          UNAMSAT-B              1996 Sep  5
Saudi Arabia 1996-40B          Arabsat 2A             1996 Jul  9
Saudi Arabia 1996-63A          Arabsat 2B             1996 Nov 13    
Thailand     1997-16B          Thaicom 3              1997 Apr 16
Turkey       1996-40A          Turksat 1C             1996 Jul  9
Malaysia     1996-63B          Measat 2               1996 Nov 13
Norway       1997-25A          Thor 2                 1997 May 20

Missing registrations for launches prior to Jul 1997 but which were
launched later than the period covered by the most recent document
submitted by the relevant State: (so they may be included in that
State's next submission, if we're lucky...)

Canada       1996-22A          MSAT-1                 1996 Apr 20
Israel       1996-30B          Amos 1                 1996 May 16
France       1996-44B          Telecom 2D             1996 Aug  8
Czech        1996-50C          Magion 5               1996 Aug 29
Germany      1996-65B          Orfeus-SPAS            1996 Nov 19
UK           1996-53A          Inmarsat III F2        1996 Sep  6
UK           1996-70A          Inmarsat III F3        1996 Dec 18
UK           1997-27A          Inmarsat III F4        1997 Jun  4