Engineering:Progress M-36
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Short description: Russian cargo spacecraft
 A Progress-M spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1997-058A |
| SATCAT no. | 25002[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.236) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 5 October 1997, 15:08:57 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 19 December 1997, 13:20:01 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 193 km[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 246 km[3] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
| Period | 88.6 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 5 October 1997 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
| Docking date | 8 October 1997, 17:07:09 UTC |
| Undocking date | 17 December 1997, 06:01:53 UTC |
Progress M-36 (Russian: Прогресс M-36) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1997 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress M-36 launched on 5 October 1997 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][4]
Docking
Progress M-36 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 8 October 1997 at 17:07:09 UTC, and was undocked on 17 December 1997 at 06:01:53 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 19 December 1997, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 13:20:01 UTC, with the mission ending at 13:59:01 UTC.[3][5]
See also
- 1997 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-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress-m.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-36"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm36.sht.
- ↑ "Progress M-36". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-058A.
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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