What happened to the Russian space station?

Question

Last i heard they had to abandon it because they could not afford to keep up repairs! Did it fall back down to earth? If so where did it fall? If it did fall back to earth could have it created the sunami?
Before anybody say's it drifted into space, remember about earths gravity pulling it towords the earth.

Answer 1

It re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on 30 June 2005

Here is more info, with photo:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/mir_fiery_finale_page.html

Answer 2

Mir was a very old station.

It was decommision and set into a degrading orbit and it came down in the South Pacific

No sunami or anything the American Skylab station met the same fate

Answer 3

The Russian Space Station, Mir, wasn't abandoned in the sense you describe. Nor was its demise solely to do with the cost of repairs (unlike the first American space station, Skylab). More important was the fact that Mir was only designed to have a five-year lifespan and it had been in space for fifteen years, ten of which had seen continual habitation by crew from both Russia and America.

By the time the decision to retire Mir was taken in 2001, Russia had already joined 15 other nations, in 1993, agreeing to commission and build an international space station which would be four times the size of Mir (The ISS is not scheduled for completion until 2010). So, Mir was in effect obsolete and a decision was taken to abandon it and bring it back to earth in a controlled manner. Many russians disagreed with the decision as a matter of national pride, and many other nations worried about the risks involved in bringing 130 tons of metal back to earth and whether it would be possible to do so in a controlled manner.

The International Space Station's life expectancy is from 2010 to 2016, whilst Mir's life expectancy was meant to be 1986 to 1991. When Mir was brought back to earth in 2001 it had withstood three times it's life expectancy and was deliberately de-orbited and brought into the earth's atmosphere on a trajectory that would ensure destruction.

The clever part of the deliberate re-entry is that the Russians successfully managed to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere the majority of the 130 or so tons of Mir so effectively that only small fragments from the station touched down - and did so into ocean in exactly the anticipated location.

This is in contrast with the American experience of their first space station, Skylab, which did fall out of the sky owing to lack of funding when the unmanned expedition which was planned to take the station into higher orbit was cancelled. The Shuttle program, originally intended to launch in 1979, was put back to 1981, leaving skylab to maintain orbit on its own without any hope of maintenance. Skylab lost orbit on July 11th 1979, and parts of the station came down in Western Australia, killing three cattle in the process, and causing the local government in Australia to fine the United States of America $400 for "littering".

As a codasil incidentally, in addition to having a better track record than the Americans on controlled de-commissioning of a space station, the Russians achieved something with their space shuttle (Buran) that the Americans have yet to match - an unmmaned shuttle flight, with take-off and landing being fully automated. The russian shuttle fleet however flew just the one, unmanned, flight and was subsequently grounded in 1993 with further work cancelled.

The russian space agency incidentally managed to build their space shuttle, Buran, and their space station, Mir, which they then maintained in orbit for fifteen years on a budget 1/90th that of NASA ! The costs of the International Space Station's construction and maintenance are being shared among 16 nations.

Answer 4

Hi. It landed in the South Pacific ocean after a controlled (sort of) re-entry burn.

Answer 5

It got tired of just wandering around bored up there so it decided to go for a swim in the Pacific Ocean. No chunks were large enough when it hit to have made a tsunami.

Answer 6

nothing happened, but, just go to mars for a vocation.it wnt drop back to earth for sure. there is no way the gravity suck it back to earch. unless it been pushed into the air.

Answer 7

It was booked for parking and then....!

It might have been towed away and gotten lost in some darkened city pound ...somewhere ....some city ....some country or maybe, some other planet even!

Answer 8

Its still up there falling to bits slowly.

Answer 9

It crashed and burnt. F**k knows where.

Answer 10

i dont know but i love russian people cause i am russian!!!! lol