Pirs Docking Compartment

I read at the following link that the Pirs Docking Compartment has a
lifetime as part of the station of 5 years. It was launched in 2001. Are
there plans to replace it soon?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...ents/pirs.html

"Space Balls" wrote in news:AwBsh.2447$uL6.828
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I read at the following link that the Pirs Docking Compartment has a
lifetime as part of the station of 5 years. It was launched in 2001. Are
there plans to replace it soon?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...ents/pirs.html

Originally there was. Pirs would have been jettisoned, deorbited, and
replaced with DC-2 docked to the UDM which would have docked to the same
port as the original Pirs.

Now that UDM has been cancelled, the plan is to relocate Pirs from Zvezda
nadir to Zvezda zenith, and DC-2 has been cancelled as well.


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