[FPSPACE] Mir Gyrodynes Fail To Restart

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

> The gyroscopes ground to a halt during a sudden power loss last week that 
> disabled the 15-year-old Mir's central computer and its orientation system, 
> prompting officials to put off the launch of the Progress M1 cargo ship for 
> fears the Mir would be too unstable to dock with. 

Quick question:

There was an earlier failure a few weeks ago.  In that case, the computer
failure came first due to a software glitch.  This caused the solar panels
to drift out of alignment.  This statement above implies that the second
failure was different--that a power failure caused a computer failure.

Is this the case, or were the two failures the same and this report is
wrong?



DDAY