Talk:Pirs (ISS module)

Latest comment: 5 years ago by 7REPTILLIAN7 in topic Progress MS09 deorbit

renaming suggestion

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I suggest renaming this article to something more appropriate (Pirs Docking Compartment, ISS Docking Compartment, or something similar). Matevzk 22:20, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I am unable to find any similarities between this article (as it was before marked copyvio) and the page linked to with the copyvio. Mel_Etitis, could you please explain your action? --Matevzk 16:09, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

From the page I cited:
Docking Compartment
There are two Russian element Docking Compartments (DCs) used during the assembly sequence to provide egress/ingress capability for Russian-based EVAs and additional docking ports.
From the article:
Docking Compartment
There were two planned Russian element Docking Compartments (DCs) during the assembly sequence to provide egress/ingress capability for Russian-based EVAs and additional docking ports on the International Space Station.

The first sentence is thus lifted from the (middle of the) page cited (and also supplies the reason that the article has such a puzzling, vague, and wrongly capitalised title). On the other hand, I thought that I'd found more of the article, and now I can't — which might mean that the source is no longer on the Web, but is more likely to mean that I was a bit hasty. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:46, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Information from WP:CP

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The Johnson Space Center and NASA are United States government agencies and NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted. Cleanup maybe? DialUp 03:26, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The correct link is [1]. -- Paddu 15:34, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Old requested move

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ISS docking compartmentPirs — Module name should be used rather than its description. Target article is currently a redirect to the source article. -- GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 21:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

The article purports to cover the two docking compartments, both Pirs, which was made, and SO2, which was not. It would need to be re-written before Pirs became a suitable title. It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 06:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Can non-Russian wearers of Orlan space suits exit via Pirs?

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The article currently implies only Russian nationals can exit ISS via a Pirs airlock. In fact, can't anyone trained to use Orlan space suits do so? Haven't there already been nationals of countries other than Russia who have done so? Perhaps this sentence could be re-written to mention cosmonauts and "Russian Orlan space suits"? (Sdsds - Talk) 03:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Yes, of course non-Russians who are trained in using Orlan suits can and have conducted EVAs from Pirs. On 11.23.06 Michael Lopez-Alegria did exactly that. See: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition14/exp14_eva_112206.html for the details. (Sdsds - Talk) 23:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Reply


Cranes

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We need to make mention of the 2 russian Strela cranes on Pirs. They were intended for assembly of the power tower (now cancelled). One of the cranes can be extended to reach the end of Zarya, the other can extend to the opposite site and reach the end of Zvezda. The first arm was assembled in space during STS-96 and STS-101. The 2nd was launched alongside Pirs itself. The Strela (russian for arrowhead) cranes are successors to the original MIR strela crane. I have a little bit of trouble finding a good source that has some proper info on the the cranes however. --TheDJ (talkcontribs) 16:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. JPG-GR (talk) 19:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Pirs docking compartmentPirsPirs currently redirects to Pirs docking compartment, therefore there is no need for the long and non-standard disambiguation that the current title provides. — GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 13:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Survey

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Discussion

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Launch Date

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Hi, guys, Something wrong with launch date here: «Pirs was launched in August 2001.» «Pirs was launched on September 14, 2001, as ISS Assembly Mission 4R, on a Russian Soyuz-U rocket…» Actually the Pirs was launched on September 15 (Moscow Time), or we should make clear what time are used.Piyavkin (talk) 02:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Pirs end of life

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  • Could there be some explanation about the separation method of Pirs ? If you just separate it from the ISS wouldn't it continue to float freely around the ISS ? How is Pirs set on a collision-free trajectory wrt to the ISS ? Hektor (talk) 10:10, 24 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
It should be quite obvious that Pirs will depart with the last Progress that docks to it. 88.85.135.235 (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
It's not obvious to all, so is there an RS that says that ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:28, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

How many airlocks and EVA hatches

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Article says "The two airlocks are used for spacewalks ..." but I had the impression that Pirs had one airlock with two EVA hatches. (eg like Poisk) & Any idea why two EVA hatches provided (if it is only one airlock) - redundancy or some need to use both at same time ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Progress MS09 deorbit

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If I am correct, Pirs should've undocked with the ISS a few days ago, on January 25th. If this is the case, could someone please edit the article and find an appropriate source? Thanks 7REPTILLIAN7 (talk) 16:12, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply