Engineering:Progress M-43
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Short description: Russian cargo spacecraft
 A Progress-M spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 2000-064A |
| SATCAT no. | 26570[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.243) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 16 October 2000, 21:27:06 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 29 January 2001, 01:04 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 193 km[4] |
| Apogee altitude | 244 km[4] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[4] |
| Period | 88.4 minutes[4] |
| Epoch | 16 October 2000 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[4] |
| Docking date | 20 October 2000, 21:16:05 UTC |
| Undocking date | 25 January 2001, 05:19:49 UTC |
Progress M-43 (Russian: Прогресс M-43) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 2000 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress M-43 launched on 16 October 2000 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2] The launch had been delayed from the previous day.[5]
Docking
Progress M-43 docked with Mir on 20 October 2000 at 21:16:05 UTC.[4]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 29 January 2001, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:12 UTC.[4]
See also
- 2000 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.
- ↑ "Progress M-43". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTrajectory.action?id=2000-064A.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-43"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm43.sht.
- ↑ "Mir". Astronautix. http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html.
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