 A Progress-M spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 2000-064A |
| SATCAT no. | 265701 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.243) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M2 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 16 October 2000, 21:27:06 UTC1 |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 29 January 2001, 01:04 UTC3 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 193 km4 |
| Apogee altitude | 244 km4 |
| Inclination | 51.6°4 |
| Period | 88.4 minutes4 |
| Epoch | 16 October 2000 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft4 |
| Docking date | 20 October 2000, 21:16:05 UTC |
| Undocking date | 25 January 2001, 05:19:49 UTC |
| Progress Mir flights | |
Progress M-43 (Russian: Прогресс M-43) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 2000 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress M-43 launched on 16 October 2000 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.2 The launch had been delayed from the previous day.5
Docking
Progress M-43 docked with Mir on 20 October 2000 at 21:16:05 UTC.4
Decay
It remained in orbit until 29 January 2001, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:12 UTC.4
References
References
- "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- "Progress M-43". NASA. Retrieved 2 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-43"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 18 October 2007.
- "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2020.