Progress M-11 Explained

Progress M-11
Mission Type:Mir resupply
Cospar Id:1992-004A
Spacecraft Type:Progress-M 11F615A55
Manufacturer:NPO Energia
Launch Mass:7250kg (15,980lb)
Launch Date: UTC
Launch Rocket:Soyuz-U2
Launch Site:Baikonur Site 1/5
Disposal Type:Deorbited
Decay Date: UTC
Orbit Reference:Geocentric
Orbit Regime:Low Earth
Orbit Inclination:51.6 degrees
Apsis:gee
Docking:
Docking Type:dock
Docking Port:Core Forward
Docking Date:27 January 1992, 09:30:43 UTC
Undocking Date:13 March 1992, 08:43:40 UTC
Time Docked:46 days

Progress M-11 (Russian: Прогресс М-11|italic=yes) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The twenty-ninth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[2] and had the serial number 212.[3] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-10 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres. It was the first spacecraft to visit Mir following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Progress M-11 was launched at 07:50:16 GMT on 25 January 1992, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[3] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the Forward port of Mir's core module at 09:30:43 GMT on 27 January.[4] [5]

During the 46 days for which Progress M-11 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 375kmby393kmkm (233milesby244mileskm), inclined at 51.6 degrees. Progress M-11 undocked from Mir at 08:43:40 GMT on 13 March, and was deorbited few hours later, to a destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean at around 15:47.[6] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Progress M-11. US National Space Science Data Center. NSSDC Master Catalog. 2009-08-31.
  2. Web site: Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM). Gunter. Krebs. Gunter's Space Page. 2009-08-31.
  3. Web site: Launch Log. McDowell. Jonathan. Jonathan McDowell. Jonathan's Space Page. 2009-08-31.
  4. Web site: Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-11". Alexander. Anikeev. Manned Astronautics - Figures & Facts. 2009-08-31. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071009101637/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm11.sht. 2007-10-09.
  5. Web site: Progress M . Wade . Mark . Encyclopedia Astronautica . 2009-08-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090710175743/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/proressm.htm . July 10, 2009 .
  6. Web site: Satellite Catalog. McDowell. Jonathan. Jonathan's Space Page. 2009-08-31.