Re: Mir is leaking?
Brian Hunter (bkh@chem.queensu.ca)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:18:55 -0400
I don't think the two comments are related.
Mir has been leaking for months and I am not surprised that this continues.
Drag will lower the orbit. Physics has not been repealed.
Has anyone done a calculation on when Mir might reenter if control were lost
today?? Alan?
BKH
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From: Hedgepet@stihl.de <Hedgepet@stihl.de>
To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:06 PM
Subject: Mir is leaking?
>Everyone,
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>I found this today. First paragraph from linked story:
>
>The beleaguered Mir space station, unmanned since August, is leaking oxygen
>and gradually losing altitude as a result, but this not should cause it to
>crash or become uninhabitable, the Russian Space Agency says.
>
>Later.
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