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Topic: [Discuss] Pirs docking compartment (ISS)
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Member Posts: 1019
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 06-24-2013 06:04 PM
   
I am surprised to read that Russia intends to jettison the Pirs module sometime this year (2013). Was it always intended that Pirs was to be temporary or did it just degrade faster than planned? |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 06-25-2013 02:06 PM
I am unsure if it was always planned but it needs to go if the Russian multi-purpose laboratory module will be docked permanently. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 07-03-2013 07:34 PM
I don't know about it being "always" planned, but the Russians had it in their plans to get rid of Pirs quite a number of years ago when the new science module was ready.The main thing about the current space station configuration is they have the Poisk module on the upper port, which gives them one more docking port for Soyuz than they previously had as the upper port was originally going to be the location of the Russian solar array tower. Pirs also originally had an operational design life of only five years and it has lasted far longer than that. |
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Member Posts: 1019
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 07-25-2021 05:18 PM
Has the Pirs module been jettisoned from the International Space Station yet? I thought it was supposed to leave on Saturday (July 24, 2021), but have seen no new news stories about it. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 46712
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-25-2021 05:32 PM
Undocking is now scheduled for Monday (July 26) at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT), with both Pirs and the Progress MS-16 spacecraft reentering the atmosphere and being destroyed about four hours later. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 46712
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-26-2021 10:06 AM
From Roscosmos (via Twitter): The non-combustible structural elements of the Progress MS-16 cargo ship and the Pirs module fell in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean.Thank you for your work, Progress and Pirs!  |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2053
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-26-2021 03:15 PM
Nice photo, thanks Robert. |
MSS
Member Posts: 916
From: Europe
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-26-2021 04:31 PM
ISS configuration after Progress MS-16 with Pirs undocking (July 26, 2021): |
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