Progress 40
Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1989-008A |
SATCAT no. | 19783[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.148) |
Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 10 February 1989, 08:53:52 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 5 March 1989, 01:08 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 187 km[3] |
Apogee altitude | 244 km[3] |
Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
Period | 88.8 minutes[3] |
Epoch | 10 February 1989 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 12 February 1989, 10:29:38 UTC |
Undocking date | 3 March 1989, 01:45:52 UTC |
Progress 40 (Russian: Прогресс 40) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1989 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.
Launch
[edit]Progress 40 launched on 10 February 1989 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
[edit]Progress 40 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 12 February 1989 at 10:29:38 UTC, and was undocked on 3 March 1989 at 01:45:52 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
[edit]It remained in orbit until 5 March 1989, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 01:08 UTC and the mission ended at 01:59 UTC.[3][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 40"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
- ^ "Progress 40". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.