Hello All, Only speculation on my part, but why would the international designation for Progress M-36 (97058) be applied to Sputnik 40? I realize it was delivered on M-36, but why not a Mir international designation since it was launched from Mir during the EVA 3? 24958/97058C is presently leading the Mir complex by 5356 km. Radio observations of Sputnik 40 indicate it only slightly leading Mir. Could 24958/97058C be debris from M-36? Jeff Hunt <jhunt@radix.net> --- On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 18:39:18 +0300 (MSK) Agapov Vladimir <avm@kiam1.rssi.ru> wrote: >Hello, > >Sputnik-40 was released at ~04:05 UTC on Nov 3. >It seems that U.S. SpaceCom have tracking Sputnik-40. OIG database >has following TLEs for it (#24958 was not used before): > > >1 24958U 97058C 97307.76974987 .03133272 00000-0 33373-1 0 15 >2 24958 51.6653 104.2151 0002854 267.1153 91.4740 15.60116254 11