ORBITING STATION " MIR " WILL BE NOYEE BETWEEN THE 15 AND ON NEXT 20
MARCH








MOSCOW, March 6.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Edouard Pouzyrev).  The
Russian orbiting station " Mir " will be noyee between the 15 and on
next 20 March, has advertisement Tuesday one of the designers of " Mir
" Leonid Gorchkov, specialist of the Russian company of space
construction RKK " Energuia ".  It A gives a press conference has
Moscow before its departure on the point of destruction of " Mir " in
the southern part of the Pacific Ocean.

" the premiere impulse making the station leave its orbit will be
donnee whereas it is has 215 kilometres Earth ", that is to say
between the 17 and on March 20, according to Leonid Gorchkov.

In same time, the station can reach this altitude on March 15 in the
event of a high solar activity which influences the speed of descent
of " Mir ", has rappele the researcher.

At present, the orbital train is has less than 260 kilometres of
altitude and goes down from 1,4 kilometre tous.les.jours.

March 9, Leonid Gorchkov and other specialists and cosmonauts Russian
leave for Japan and then for the Fiji islands (south-western of the
Pacific Ocean) of or they will go towards the place of the fall of "
Mir " has edge of a special plane americain to observe the destruction
of the orbiting station.