Engineering:Progress 34
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 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1988-003A |
| SATCAT no. | 18795[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.142) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 20 January 1988, 22:51:54 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 4 March 1988, 06:45:00 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 329 km[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 347 km[3] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
| Period | 91.3 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 20 January 1988 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
| Docking date | 23 January 1988, 00:09:09 UTC |
| Undocking date | 4 March 1988, 03:40:09 UTC |
Progress 34 (Russian: Прогресс 34) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in January 1988 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress 34 launched on 20 January 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
Progress 34 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 23 January 1988 at 00:09:09 UTC, and was undocked on 4 March 1988 at 03:40:09 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 4 March 1988, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 06:45:00 UTC and the mission ended at 07:29:30 UTC.[3][5]
See also
- 1988 in spaceflight
- List of Progress missions
- List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 34"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr34.sht.
- ↑ "Progress 34". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1988-003A.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Mir". Astronautix. http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html.
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