| Progress M-12 | |||||||||||
| Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 1992-022A | ||||||||||
| 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 Apoapsis: | [1] | ||||||||||
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6 degrees | ||||||||||
| Apsis: | gee | ||||||||||
| Docking: |
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Progress M-12 (Russian: Прогресс М-12|italic=yes) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the Mir space station.[2] The thirtieth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[3] and had the serial number 213.[4] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-11 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
Progress M-12 was launched at 21:29:25 GMT on 19 April 1992, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[4] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the Forward port of the core module of Mir at 23:21:59 GMT on 21 April.[5] [6] During the 67 days for which Progress M-12 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 371kmby415kmkm (231milesby258mileskm), inclined at 51.6 degrees.[1] Progress M-12 undocked from Mir at 21:34:44 GMT on 27 June, and was deorbited few hours later, to a destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean at around 00:02:51 the next day.[1] [5]