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The Mir station has been evaluated to forecast the expected number of impacts and penetrations the spacecraft will witness. The earliest assessments of the facility were of a research or academic nature; but in recent years, as the station has been drawn into service as the Phase 1 portion of the Russian invlovment in the ISS project, the analysis has become much more pragmatic in purpose.
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