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KC5ARZ > SAT 16.01.01 11:23l 35 Lines 1358 Bytes #999 (0) @ AMSAT
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Subj: OFFICIAL MIR DE-ORBIT DATE ANNOUNCED
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 014.05 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 14, 2001
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-014.05
Several news agencies are reporting that Russian space officials have
agreed on March 6, 2001 as the official day for de-orbiting the Mir space
station.
The Russian Aviation and Space Agency and RKK Energia reported a
Progress cargo ship with increased fuel capacity will be launched to Mir
on January 18th, followed by the undocking of a Progress M-43 cargo
ship currently at the station. Around mid-February, Mir's control attitude
will be switched off and in early March, three pulses, designed to brake
the station's orbital velocity, will take place.
A final thruster firing is scheduled to take place on March 6th, which
should slow the station enough to drop out of orbit and plunge into the
Pacific Ocean later that day.
Recently, the Russian government confirmed its intention to proceed with
cooperation (with Canada, ESA, Japan and the United States) in the
International Space Station program.
Mir has become a fixture in orbit. The central core of the Russian station
was hurled into space on February 20, 1986. Many Amateur Radio contacts
have been accomplished from the station during its time in space.
[ANS thanks Roy Neal, K6DUE, for this information]
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