Engineering:Progress M-20M

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Short description: Russian unmanned spacecraft
Progress M-20M
Progress M-20M undocking.jpg
Progress M-20M undocking from the Pirs docking module on 3 February 2014.
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2013-039A
SATCAT no.39219
Mission duration199 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeProgress-M s/n 420
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Launch mass6950 kg
Start of mission
Launch date27 July 2013, 20:45:08 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U
Launch siteBaikonur, 31/6
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date11 February 2014, 15:55 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric[2]
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude413.0 km
Apogee altitude418.0 km
Inclination51.6°
Period92.88 minutes
Epoch27 July 2013
Docking with ISS
Docking portPirs
Docking date28 July 2013, 02:26 UTC
Undocking date3 February 2014, 16:21 UTC
Time docked190 days
Progress ISS Resupply
 

Progress M-20M (Russian: Прогресс М-20М), identified by NASA as Progress 52P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2013.[3] Progress M-20M was built by RKK Energia. Progress M-20M was launched on a 6-hours rendezvous profile towards the ISS. The 20th Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, it had the serial number 420 and was built by RKK Energia.

Launch

The spacecraft was launched on 27 July 2013 at 20:45 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.[4] The launch was the first out of Baikonur since a disastrous Proton-M failure on 2 July 2013.

Docking

Progress M-20M docked with the Pirs docking compartment on 28 July 2013 at 02:26 UTC, less than six hours after launch.[5]

Cargo

Some last minute items were added to the Progress to assist the station astronauts with figuring out why the cooling system on one of the American spacesuits sprung a leak and caused a spacewalk to be aborted the previous week.

Undocking and reentry

Progress M-20M undocked from the ISS on 3 February 2014.

References

  1. ↑ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt. 
  2. ↑ McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. http://planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt. 
  3. ↑ Pete Harding (July 27, 2013). "Progress M-20M arrives at ISS with spacesuit repair tools". http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/07/progress-m-20m-fast-track-launch-spacesuit-repair-tools-iss/. 
  4. ↑ "Cargo freighter takes four-orbit sprint to space station". Spaceflight Now. 27 July 2013. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/prog52p.html. 
  5. ↑ Megan Gannon (July 27, 2013). "Russian Spacecraft Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit to International Space Station". http://www.space.com/22145-russian-rogress-space-station-docking.html. 



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