Priroda

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Priroda

A view of Priroda from the departing Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-89
Mir insignia
Station statistics
COSPAR ID	1996-023A
SATCAT no.	23848
Call sign	Mir
Launch	April 23, 1996 Docked with Mir April 26, 1996
Launch pad	LC-81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Reentry	March 21, 2001
Mass	19,700 kg
Length	9.7 metres
Diameter	4.35 metres
Pressurised volume	66 m3
Periapsis altitude	385 km (207.9 nmi)
Apoapsis altitude	393 km (212.2 nmi)
Orbital inclination	51.6 degrees
Orbital period	89.1 minutes
Orbits per day	16.16
Days in orbit	1,793 days
Configuration
Cut-away view of Priroda

The Priroda (Russian: Природа; English: Nature) (TsM-I, 77KSI, 11F77I) module was the seventh and final module of the Mir Space Station. Its primary purpose was to conduct Earth resource experiments through remote sensing and to develop and verify remote sensing methods. The control system of Priroda was developed by the Khartron^[1] (Kharkov, Ukraine).