Progress M-16 Explained

Progress M-16
Mission Type:	Mir resupply
Cospar Id:	1993-012A
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
Orbit Reference:	Geocentric
Orbit Regime:	Low Earth
Orbit Apoapsis:	^[1]
Orbit Inclination:	51.6 degrees
Apsis:	gee
Docking:	Docking Type: dock Docking Port: Kvant-1 Aft Docking Date: 23 February 1993, 20:17:57 UTC Undocking Date: 26 March 1993, 06:50:00 UTC Time Docked: 30 days Docking Type: dock Docking Port: Kvant-1 Aft Docking Date: 26 March 1993, 07:06:03 UTC Undocking Date: 27 March 1993, 04:21:00 UTC Time Docked: 1 day

Progress M-16 (Russian: Прогресс М-16|italic=yes) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1993 to resupply the Mir space station.^[2] The thirty-fourth of sixty-four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,^[3] and had the serial number 216.^[4] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-13 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.

Progress M-16 was launched at 18:32:32 GMT on 21 February 1993, 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 aft port of the Kvant-1 module at 20:17:57 GMT on 23 February.^{[5] [6]}

Progress M-16 remained docked with Mir for 30 days, during which time it was in an orbit of around 387kmby390kmkm (240milesby240mileskm), inclined at 51.6 degrees.^[1] It undocked from Mir at 06:50:00 GMT on 26 March, before redocking with the same port at 07:06:03 to test its docking systems. It undocked for the final time at 04:21:00 GMT on 27 March, and was deorbited few hours later at 10:25:00, to a destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean.^{[1] [5]}

See also

• 1993 in spaceflight
• List of Progress flights
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

Notes and References

1. Web site: Satellite Catalog. McDowell. Jonathan. Jonathan's Space Page. 2009-09-01.
2. Web site: Progress M-16. US National Space Science Data Center. NSSDC Master Catalog. 2009-09-01.
3. Web site: Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM). Gunter. Krebs. Gunter's Space Page. 2009-09-01.
4. Web site: Launch Log. McDowell. Jonathan. Jonathan's Space Page. 2009-09-01.
5. Web site: Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-16". Alexander. Anikeev. Manned Astronautics - Figures & Facts. 2009-09-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071009095718/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm16.sht. 2007-10-09.
6. Web site: Progress M. Wade. Mark. Encyclopedia Astronautica. 2009-09-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090710175743/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/proressm.htm. 2009-07-10.