Satellite Tracking

Progress M1-3 Re-entry

Mir De-orbit - 1

Mir De-orbit - 2

Re-entry of Mir - 2001

After fifteen years of operations, Mir was finally closed down and 'demolished' in 2001.

At the time, Russia was providing information about anticipated events but it was lacking detail in some areas. This section contains three articles that represent firstly, a starting point for working out the likely re-entry scenario (the re-entry of Progress M1-3) and then two items covering advance calculations of the likely timetable. The second of theses is a refinement of the first.

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