A Simulation of Mir Space Station Deorbiting and crashing

A computer-generated video by NASA of the Mir Space Station de-orbiting and crashing into the Pacific Ocean.


From WikiPedia:

Mir's deorbit was conducted in three stages. The first stage was waiting for atmospheric drag to decay Mir's orbit an average of 220 kilometers (137 mi). This began with the docking of Progress M1-5, a modified version of the Progress M carrying 2.5 times more fuel in place of supplies. The second stage of the deorbit was the transfer of the station into a 165 x 220 km (103 x 137 mi) orbit. This was achieved with two burns of the Progress M1-5's control engines at 00:32 UTC and 02:01 UTC on March 23, 2001. After a two-orbit pause, the third and final stage of Mir's deorbit began with the burn of Progress M1-5's control engines and main engine at 05:08 UTC, lasting a little over 22 minutes. Reentry into the Earth's atmosphere (100 km/60 mi) of the 15-year-old Russian space station occurred at 05:44 UTC near Nadi, Fiji. Major destruction of the station began around 05:52 UTC and the unburned fragments fell into the South Pacific Ocean around 06:00 UTC.

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Tags:

• mir
• space
• station
• deorbit
• crash
• pacific
• ocean
• simulation

[JacobNfromhubcity]

And then a piece hits Kenny.

[dmuth]

@JacobNfromhubcity OH MY GOD. They killed Kenny!



[gm1sxx]

Why bother?

Just another boring simulation.

Why not put the word 'simulation' into the title when you post?

Could save people a lot of time and the simulation junkies would not have to watch any reality stuff. This should please both camps..... or would that be too obvious and sensible?

Have a nice day.

Al.

[dmuth]

Sounds reasonable to me. I just updated the title accordingly. I'll update the tags, too.

-- Doug

[MadddSkillzzz]

@MrMufnut Of course. It was a controlled destruction.

[international153]

LONG LIVE THE RUSSIAN SPACE PROGRAM FUCK NASA NASA BELIEVES NIBIRU FUCK THEM

[serbin16m]

a sad sad day for humanity

[lascar33]

I KNOW WHY THEYVE BLOOWWEEDD STATION MIR BEACAUSE IT WAS TO OLD AND THEYVED PUT AN NEW ONE

[mattstorm360]

sukes to be whoever was on there

[ThumbsDown112]

oh man...... is that where NASA is spending it's money. lol JK

nasa is cool