Re: MIR power failure ?

From: Jonathan T Wojack (tlj18@juno.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 08:38:32 PST

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> Spaceflight today at <http://spaceflightnow.com/mir/010118scrub/> is
> reporting the cause as the gyros shut down causing the station to 
> lost
> attitude control.

Is it known why the gyros shut down (again) ?  Would they still shut down
like this if the station were manned?  If so, then it probably a good
thing that we are getting rid of Mir.  Relatively short periods of power
failure can be fatal in space.

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