Engineering:Progress M-64

Short description: Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station

Progress M-64

Progress M-64 after undocking from Zarya.
Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2008-023A
SATCAT no.	32847
Mission duration	117 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M s/n 364
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Launch mass	7056 kg
Start of mission
Launch date	14 May 2008, 20:22 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	8 September 2008, 21:33 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	337 km
Apogee altitude	344 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	91.3 minutes
Epoch	14 May 2008
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zarya nadir
Docking date	16 May 2008, 21:39:20 UTC
Undocking date	1 September 2008, 19:46 UTC
Time docked	108 days
Cargo
Mass	3100 kg
Pressurised	1292 kg (dry cargo)
Fuel	1230 kg
Gaseous	29 kg (oxygen) and 21 kg (air)
Water	420 kg
Progress ISS Resupply

Progress M-64 (Russian: Прогресс М-64), identified by NASA as Progress 29P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 364.

Launch

Progress M-64 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 20:22 UTC on 14 May 2008.

Docking

The spacecraft docked with the nadir port of the Zarya module at 21:39:20 UTC on 16 May 2008, two minutes behind schedule, by means of the Kurs system. Following undocking at 19:46 UTC on 1 September 2008, it spent a week in free-flight conducting experiments for the Plazma-Progress programme. It was deorbited on 8 September 2008, with the deorbit burn beginning at 20:47 UTC. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 21:33 UTC.

Cargo

Progress M-64 carried 3,100 kilograms (6,800 lb) of cargo to the International Space Station. 1,292 kilograms (2,848 lb) of this was dry cargo, including food for the crew, equipment for conducting scientific research, and a replacement Sokol KV-2 spacesuit for Sergey Volkov, as his original suit had been damaged. It also carried a docking target for attaching the MRM-2 module to the zenith port of the Zvezda module.

In addition to dry cargo, it carried 1,230 kilograms (2,710 lb) of fuel for reboosting and refuelling the ISS, 29 kilograms (64 lb) of oxygen and 21 kilograms (46 lb) of air for the crew to breathe, and 420 kilograms (930 lb) of water.

See also

• List of Progress flights
• Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station