Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1997-033A |
SATCAT no. | 24851 [1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.235) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M [2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 5 July 1997, 04:11:54 UTC [1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U [2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 7 October 1997, 16:41 UTC [3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 188 km [3] |
Apogee altitude | 248 km [3] |
Inclination | 51.6° [3] |
Period | 88.6 minutes [3] |
Epoch | 5 July 1997 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft [3] |
Docking date | 7 July 1997, 05:59:24 UTC |
Undocking date | 6 August 1997, 11:46:45 UTC |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft [3] |
Docking date | 18 August 1997, 12:52:48 UTC |
Undocking date | 7 October 1997, 12:03:47 UTC |
Progress M-35 ( Russian: Прогресс M-35) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1997 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-35 launched on 5 July 1997 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket. [2] [4]
Progress M-35 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 7 July 1997 at 05:59:24 UTC, and was undocked on 6 August 1997 at 11:46:45 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-26. [3] [5] Following a redocking of Soyuz TM-26 to the forward port of the Mir Core Module, Progress M-35 was redocked at the Kvant-1 aft port on 18 August 1997 at 12:52:48 UTC. Progress M-35 was finally undocked on 7 October 1997 at 12:03:47 UTC. [3] [5]
It remained in orbit until 7 October 1997, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 16:41 UTC, with the mission ending at 17:23 UTC. [3] [5]