Engineering:Progress 28
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Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1987-023A |
SATCAT no. | 17564[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.137) |
Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 3 March 1987, 11:14:05 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 28 March 1987, 03:01:01 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 185 km[3] |
Apogee altitude | 254 km[3] |
Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
Period | 88.9 minutes[3] |
Epoch | 3 March 1987 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Mir Core Module aft[3] |
Docking date | 5 March 1987, 12:42:36 UTC |
Undocking date | 26 March 1987, 05:06:48 UTC |
Progress 28 (Russian: Прогресс 28) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in March 1987 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress 28 launched on 3 March 1987 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
Progress 28 docked with the aft port of the Mir Core Module on 5 March 1987 at 12:42:36 UTC, and was undocked on 26 March 1987 at 05:06:48 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
It remained in orbit until 28 March 1987, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 03:01:01 UTC and the mission ended at 03:49 UTC.[3][5]
See also
- 1987 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 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 28"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr28.sht.
- ↑ "Progress 28". NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1987-023A.
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Mir". Astronautix. http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html.
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