Hello! I received today a mail of K. Dennerl which forwarded another mail about Abrixas situation : While the statement on the loss of Abrixas is correct from the science point of view, it is somewhat different from the operational side. Both, GSOC and OHB are continuing their daily(!) efforts to get into contact with Abrixas, and will do so for the next months at least until the next full-Sun period in December 1999. Thus, it remains of immenent interest to finally determine the rotation axis of Abrixas in order to determine whether (once the rotation stopped) or not the solar panels will point towards the Sun in December or not. Note that due to the main momentum axis of the satellite there are only two stable locations for Abrixas in absence of any attitude control, namely either point towards the Sun, or anti-Sun. As people at AIP have made good progress in establishing a model of the reflectivity of Abrixas in order to describe the observed light curve, further observations are urgently needed to follow the change of the rotation axis with time. Therefore, it is certainly too early at this moment to stop optical observations. (As a matter of fact we have to rely on optical observatiosn only, since radio observations at Haystack seem nearly impossible to get.) -- Michel JACQUESSON 4°05' E 49°36' N