Engineering:Progress 37
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Short description: Soviet spacecraft
 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1988-061A |
| SATCAT no. | 19322[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.145) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 18 July 1988, 21:13:09 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 12 August 1988, 12:51:30 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 189 km[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 256 km[3] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
| Period | 89 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 18 July 1988 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
| Docking date | 20 July 1988, 22:33:40 UTC |
| Undocking date | 12 August 1988, 08:31:54 UTC |
Progress 37 (Russian: Прогресс 37) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1988 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress 37 launched on 18 July 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
Progress 37 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 20 July 1988 at 22:33:40 UTC, and was undocked on 12 August 1988 at 08:31:54 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 12 August 1988, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 12:51:30 UTC and the mission ended at 13:45:40 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 37"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr37.sht.
- ↑ "Progress 37". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1988-061A.
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Mir". Astronautix. http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html.
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