Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1998-031A |
SATCAT no. | 25340 [1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.238) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M [2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 14 May 1998, 22:12:59 UTC [1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U [2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 29 October 1998, 03:27:00 UTC [3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 194 km [3] |
Apogee altitude | 238 km [3] |
Inclination | 51.7° [3] |
Period | 88.5 minutes [3] |
Epoch | 14 May 1998 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft [3] |
Docking date | 16 May 1998, 23:50:33 UTC |
Undocking date | 12 August 1998, 09:28:52 UTC |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft [3] |
Docking date | 1 September 1998, 05:34:40 UTC |
Undocking date | 25 October 1998, 23:03:24 UTC |
Progress M-39 ( Russian: Прогресс M-39) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1998 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-39 launched on 14 May 1998 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket. [2] [4]
Progress M-39 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 16 May 1998 at 23:50:33 UTC, and was undocked on 12 August 1998 at 09:28:52 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-28. [3] [5] Following the redocking of Soyuz TM-28 to the Mir Core Module forward port, Progress M-39 was redocked to the Kvant-1 aft port on 1 September 1998 at 05:34:40 UTC. Progress M-39 was finally undocked on 25 October 1998 at 23:03:24 UTC. [3] [5]
It remained in orbit until 29 October 1998, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 03:27:00 UTC, with the mission ending at 04:14:52 UTC. [3] [5]