Engineering:Progress M-19

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Short description: Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft
Progress M-19
Progress-M drawing.svg
A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1993-052A
SATCAT no.22745[1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.219)
Spacecraft typeProgress-M[2]
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date10 August 1993, 22:23:45 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U[2]
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date19 October 1993, 00:22:14 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude179 km[4]
Apogee altitude223 km[4]
Inclination51.8°[4]
Period88.5 minutes[4]
Epoch13 August 1993
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant aft[4]
Docking date13 August 1993, 00:00:06 UTC
Undocking date12 October 1993, 17:59:06 UTC
 

Progress M-19 (Russian: Прогресс M-19) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in 1993 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-19 launched on 10 August 1993 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2]

Docking

Progress M-19 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 13 August 1993 at 00:00:06 UTC, and was undocked on 12 October 1993 at 17:59:06.[4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 18 October 1993, when it was deorbited. The mission ending occurred at 00:22:14 UTC on 19 October 1993, when the VBK-Raduga 8 capsule landed.[3]

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