In a message dated 5/23/98 5:02:30 AM EDT, caliban@kki.net.pl writes: > > By the way, is there any place on the Net where I could learn a bit > about the history of some satellites like Vanguards, X Mir Insp., > Raduga, Molniya and what exactly 'Mir debris' objects are? > Thanks, > Grzegorz Koralewski The Satellite Encyclopedia Online at: http://www.tele-satellit.com/tse/online/ is probably the best palce to start. Gunter's Space Page at: http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de:80/~gkrebs/space/space.html is good too - as is JPL's Mission and Spacecraft Library at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html I've collected links to satellite program homepages at: http://members.aol.com/mir16609/sat-prgs.htm Cheers. Don Gardner Homepage: http://members.aol.com/mir16609/ 76.8419 W, 39.1796 N, 34m ASL