Names | Progress 76P |
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Mission type | ISS resupply |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2020-050A |
SATCAT no. | 45937 |
Website | https://www.roscosmos.ru/ |
Mission duration | 1362 days, 4 hours, 24 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress MS-15 |
Spacecraft type | Progress MS |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Launch mass | 7000 kg |
Payload mass | 2540 kg |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 23 July 2020, 14:26:21 UTC [1] [2] [3] |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 9 February 2021, 09:13 UTC [4] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.65° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Pirs nadir |
Docking date | 23 July 2020, 17:45 UTC |
Undocking date | 9 February 2021, 05:21 UTC |
Time docked | 200 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes |
Cargo | |
Mass | 2540 kg |
Pressurised | 2540 kg |
Fuel | 620 kg |
Gaseous | 46 kg (oxygen) |
Water | 420 kg |
Progress ISS Resupply |
Progress MS-15 ( Russian: Прогресс МC-15), Russian production No. 444, identified by NASA as Progress 76P, was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This was the 167th flight of a Progress spacecraft. [5]
The Progress-MS is an uncrewed freighter based on the Progress-M featuring improved avionics. This improved variant first launched on 21 December 2015. It has the following improvements: [5] [6] [7]
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was used to launch Progress MS-15 to the International Space Station. Progress MS-15 was launched at 14:26:21 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 on a fast-track trajectory. Following a nominal launch, Progress MS-15 docked with the Pirs port on the ISS two orbits later at 17:45:00 UTC. [3] [8]
Around 3 hours 20 minutes after the launch, Progress MS-15 successfully docked automatically at the nadir port of the Pirs module at 17:45:00 UTC, [3] [8] [9] where it remained until February 2021. [4] After its mission was completed, Progress MS-15 departed and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere for destruction over the South Pacific Ocean. [4]
The Progress MS-15 spacecraft delivered 2,540 kg (5,600 lb) of cargo, with 1,430 kg (3,150 lb) of this being dry cargo. The following is a breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS: [1]
The Progress MS-15 remained docked at the station through on 9 February 2021, when it departed with trash and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere for destruction over the South Pacific Ocean. [4] The Pirs module, originally scheduled to be removed and discarded at the end of this mission, [10] [11] will stay attached to the station until the arrival of the Nauka module.