Dear Petr, Thank you very much for sending me the updates. I have again 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- Grossly overdue submissions: Mexico, Brazil, Israel, Ukraine States which have launched their first satellites since mid 1997 and ought to open a register: Phillipines, Egypt, Singapore, ROC (Taiwan), South Africa, Denmark Luxembourg has registered its outstanding satellites. Submissions by Germany and Australia registered their newest satellites, but did not include other satellites launched since their previous submission. Newly delinquent registrations: Germany 1997-75B Equator-S 1997 Dec 2 Germany 1998-43F SAFIR-2 1998 Jul 10 France (EUT) 1997-49A Hot Bird 3 1997 Sep 2 France 1998-17A SPOT 4 1998 Mar 24 US 1997-53A Intelsat 803 1997 Sep 23 US 1997-83A Intelsat 804 1997 Dec 22 US 1997-86A Asiasat 3/HGS-1 1997 Dec 24 US 1998-14A Intelsat 806 1998 Feb 28 US 1998-37A Intelsat 805 1998 Jun 18 US 1998-65A Panamsat 8 1998 Nov 4 US 1998-67A Zarya 1998 Nov 20 US Misc Iridium (24 of 84 unregistered) Missing registrations for launches prior to Jan 1999 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...) Brazil 1998-06A Brasilsat B3 1998 Feb 4 Brazil 1998-60A SCD-2 1998 Oct 23 PRC 1997-48A Iridium MFS 1997 Sep 1 PRC 1997-48B Iridium MFS 1997 Sep 1 PRC 1998-33A Zhongwei 1 1998 May 30 PRC 1998-44A Sinosat 1998 Jul 18 ESA 1997-66A Maqsat-H 1997 Oct 30 ESA 1997-66C Maqsat-B 1997 Oct 30 ESA 1997-66C YES 1997 Oct 30 ESA 1998-59A Maqsat-3 1998 Oct 21 France (EUT) 1998-56A Eutelsat W2 1998 Oct 5 France (EUT) 1998-57A Hot Bird 5 1998 Oct 9 Indonesia 1997-71B Cakrawarta 1997 Nov 12 Israel 1998-43D Techsat 1998 Jul 10 Japan 1998-11A COMETS 1998 Feb 21 Japan 1998-24B BSAT 1b 1998 Apr 28 Japan 1998-41A Nozomi 1998 Jul 3 Luxembourg 1997-76A Astra 1G 1997 Dec 2 Luxembourg 1998-50A Astra 2A 1998 Aug 30 Mexico 1998-70A SATMEX 5 1998 Dec 6 Thailand 1998-43C TM-SAT 1998 Jul 10 UK 1998-02A Skynet 4D 1998 Jan 10 UK 1998-06B Inmarsat III F5 1998 Feb 4 Norway 1998-35A Thor 3 1998 Jun 10 Phillipines 1997-42A Agila 2 1997 Aug 19 Egypt 1998-24A Nilesat 101 1998 Apr 28 Singapore 1998-49A Singapore-Taiwan-1 1998 Aug 25