Beskrivning : Korolev-9. Automatic docking with ISS. Nick-named "Hearse", it is to deliver the 130 ton Mir station to its cremation over the southern Pacific. It carried two tons of fuel part of which was for transfer to Mir for continuous attitude/orbit maneuver so as to enable it to reach down to an altitude of 240 km, whereupon around 6 March 2001 the Progress itself will give the final push.

ba 795 - image retouchée ?

Sida : future · Ref: ba  795 

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