Progress M-15 | |||||||||||
Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||
Cospar Id: | 1992-071A | ||||||||||
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M 11F615A55 | ||||||||||
Manufacturer: | NPO Energia | ||||||||||
Launch Mass: | 7250kg (15,980lb) | ||||||||||
Launch Date: | UTC | ||||||||||
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U2 | ||||||||||
Launch Site: | Baikonur Site 31/6 | ||||||||||
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-15 (Russian: Прогресс М-15|italic=yes) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the Mir space station.[2] The thirty-third of sixty-four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[3] and had the serial number 215.[4] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-12 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres. It also transported the Mak 2 satellite, which was deployed from Mir on 20 November. TORU manual docking system was first tested in this mission.
Progress M-15 was launched at 17:19:41 GMT on 27 October 1992, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[4] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module at 17:19:41 GMT on 29 October.[5] [6]
During the 97 days for which Progress M-15 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 396kmby399kmkm (246milesby248mileskm), inclined at 51.6 degrees.[1] Progress M-15 undocked from Mir at 00:44:53 GMT on 4 February 1993, however it remained in orbit to conduct the Znamya 2 experiment, and research into autonomous flight.[6] It was deorbited on 7 February, and burned up during reentry over the Pacific Ocean at around 08:03:35 GMT.[1] [5]