Progress M-30

Progress M-30
	A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1995-070A
SATCAT no.	23744
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.230)
Spacecraft type	Progress-M
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	18 December 1995, 14:31:35 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	22 February 1996, 11:02:36 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	194 km
Apogee altitude	316 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	89.6 minutes
Epoch	18 December 1995
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft
Docking date	20 December 1995, 16:10:15 UTC
Undocking date	22 February 1996, 07:24:00 UTC
	Progress (spacecraft) ← Progress M-29 Progress M-31 →

Progress M-30 (Russian: Прогресс M-30) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-30 launched on 8 December 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.^[2]^[5]

Docking

Progress M-30 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 20 December 1995 at 16:10:15 UTC, and was undocked on 22 February 1996 at 07:24:00 UTC.^[3]^[4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 22 February 1996, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 11:02:36 UTC.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-30"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
^ "Progress M-30". NASA. Retrieved 3 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.