Engineering:Progress 23
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Short description: Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft
 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Salyut 7 resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1984-086A |
| SATCAT no. | 15193[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.124) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 14 August 1984, 06:28:15 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 28 August 1984, 01:28 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 186 km[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 250 km[3] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
| Period | 88.9 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 14 August 1984 |
| Docking with Salyut 7 | |
| Docking port | Aft[3] |
| Docking date | 16 August 1984, 08:11 UTC |
| Undocking date | 26 August 1984, 16:13 UTC |
Progress 23 (Russian: Прогресс 23) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in August 1984 to resupply the Salyut 7 space station.
Launch
Progress 23 launched on 14 August 1984 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][4]
Docking
Progress 23 docked with the aft port of Salyut 7 on 16 August 1984 at 08:11 UTC, and was undocked on 26 August 1984 at 16:13 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 28 August 1984, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 01:28 UTC, with the mission ending at around 02:15 UTC.[3][5]
See also
- 1984 in spaceflight
- List of Progress missions
- List of uncrewed spaceflights to Salyut space stations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 23"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr23.sht.
- ↑ "Progress 23". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1984-086A.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Salyut 7". Astronautix. http://www.astronautix.com/s/salyut7.html.
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