 A Progress-M spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1995-053A |
| SATCAT no. | 236781 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.229) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M2 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 8 October 1995, 18:50:40 UTC1 |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 19 December 1995, 16:15 UTC3 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 197 km4 |
| Apogee altitude | 242 km4 |
| Inclination | 51.6°4 |
| Period | 88.6 minutes4 |
| Epoch | 8 October 1995 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft4 |
| Docking date | 10 October 1995, 20:32:40 UTC |
| Undocking date | 19 December 1995, 09:15:05 UTC |
Progress M-29 (Russian: Прогресс M-29) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress M-29 launched on 8 October 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.25
Docking
Progress M-29 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 10 October 1995 at 20:32:40 UTC, and was undocked on 19 December 1995 at 09:15:05 UTC.34
Decay
It remained in orbit until 19 December 1995, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 15:26 UTC and the mission ended at 16:15 UTC.34
References
References
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- "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-29"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
- "Progress M-29". NASA. Retrieved 3 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.