Progress M-40

Progress M-40
A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1998-062A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.25512[1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.239)
Spacecraft typeProgress-M[2]
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date25 October 1998, 04:14:57 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U[2]
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date5 February 1999, 10:16:05 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude194 km[3]
Apogee altitude238 km[3]
Inclination51.6°[3]
Period88.6 minutes[3]
Epoch25 October 1998
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date27 October 1998, 05:34:41 UTC
Undocking date4 February 1999, 09:59:32 UTC

Progress M-40 (Russian: Прогресс M-40) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1998 to resupply the Mir space station, carry the Sputnik 41 satellite[4] and the unsuccessful Znamya 2.5 solar mirror.

Launch

Progress M-40 launched on 25 October 1998 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][5]

Docking

Progress M-40 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 27 October 1998 at 05:34:41 UTC, and was undocked on 4 February 1999 at 09:59:32 UTC.[3][6] On 4 February 1999 at 10:24 UTC, following undocking from Mir, an unsuccessful attempt was made to deploy Znamya 2.5, a solar mirror.[3][6]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 5 February 1999, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 10:16:05 UTC, with the mission ending at 11:09:30 UTC.[3][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-40"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Sputnik 40, 41, 99 (RS 17, 18, 19)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Progress M-40". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ a b c "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.


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