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G3BGM > MIR 24.02.00 00:35l 40 Lines 1773 Bytes #-9520 (0) @ EU
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Read: DH9MAG DF6CB GUEST OE7FMI
Subj: Mir raised and refuelled
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To : MIR@EU
Following received via packet from LU7FQU last night and passed
on in English:-
Successful docking of Progress with Mir.
The ship-tender Progress M1-1, with cargo for Mir, has docked
to the veteran space station, according to information from the
Russian Centre for Space Flights.
Comment from Garcia Ferran (Ferran@noticias.com) - This is the
first cargo ship to join Mir since the month of August last
year, when the station was left unoccupied and allowed to go
adrift through lack of finance.
But a political decision made during the last onnth on the
initiative of the acting president of Russia, Vladimir Putin,
revoked the original order to abandon Mir to the sea, and
reactivated the programme of manned flights.
Progress has lifted to Mir oxygen, water, food, and fuels for
the new cosmonaut expedition, which will arrive there on 31st
March to stay on board for 45 days.
The oxygen will permit the reestablishent of the normal level
of atmosphere inside the station, where in the last few months
the pressure has been lost due to a leak in the pressure hull.
One of the tasks assigned to the new crew, composed of Sergej
Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, will be to locate and determine
the origin of the loss of pressure.
News from Intercom of 4 Feb 2000.
73 from Asmar Ochoa lu7que @ lu4fod http://www.qsl.net/lu7fqu
My comment:-
Keplers of 2000 feb 10 put Mir's mean orbit at 351 km, a very
considerable increase of height, and an indication that the
Russians mean business.
Also that for people who have no connection to internet WWW and
have to rely on packet, this is an indication that the packet
system is not working very well at present. Or have the
Aericans been taken by surprise!
73 and clear skies, Don.
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