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Subj: MIR FUTURE DOUBTFUL
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HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 303.04 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, OCTOBER 29, 2000
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-303.04
Several news agencies are reporting the Mir space station will be
de-orbited early next year. The previously announced hope that
private funds may save the nearly 15-year-old Mir are apparently
not coming to fruition.
Earlier this year, the station had won a new lease on life when a
private company signed a lease agreement and provided funds to
keep the station aloft. Russian officials have now left no doubt that
the decision to de-orbit Mir is indeed final and are now preparing the
details of the operation to discard the venerable station.
Mir has been quickly losing altitude since its latest crew left in June.
The current thinking is that a Progress supply ship with a larger
amount of fuel will be launched to Mir to give it the final impulse
and start the splash down.
Mir was launched on February 18, 1986. Currently, there is no human
habitation aboard the station and the onboard Amateur Radio equipment
has been turned off. Mir is currently on 'autopilot'.
ANS has carried the following report for several months:
MIR SAFEX II 70-cm Repeater
Uplink 435.750 MHz FM w/subaudible tone of 141.3 Hz
Downlink 437.950 MHz FM
Status: Not operational. No operation in 1999 or 2000 has been observed
MIR SAFEX II 70-cm QSO Mode
Uplink 435.725 MHz FM w/subaudible tone 151.4 Hz
Downlink 437.925 MHz FM
Status: Not operational. No operation in 1999 or 2000 has been observed
[ANS thanks Florida Today for this information]
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