Engineering:Progress M1-9

Short description: Russian cargo spacecraft

Progress M1-9

Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2002-045A
SATCAT no.	27531
Mission duration	129 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M1 s/n 258
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	25 September 2002, 16:58:24 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	1 February 2003, 20:00:28 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	281.5 km
Apogee altitude	323.5 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	minutes
Epoch	25 September 2002
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zvezda aft
Docking date	29 September 2002, 17:00:54 UTC
Undocking date	1 February 2003, 16:00:54 UTC
Time docked	125 days
Cargo
Mass	2500 kg
Progress ISS Resupply

Progress M1-9, identified by NASA as Progress 9P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M1 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 258.

Launch

Progress M1-9 was launched by a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 16:58:24 UTC on 25 September 2002.

Docking

The spacecraft docked with the aft port of the Zvezda module at 17:00:54 UTC on 29 September 2002. It remained docked for 125 days before undocking at 16:00:54 GMT on 1 February 2003. to make way for Progress M-47 It was deorbited at 19:10:00 UTC on the same day, burning up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean just six hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia had disintegrated over Texas . Any remaining debris from Progress M1-9 landed in the ocean at around 20:00:28 UTC.

Progress M1-9 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.

See also

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