| Progress M-18M | |||||||||
| Mission Type: | ISS resupply | ||||||||
| Operator: | Roskosmos | ||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 2013-007A | ||||||||
| Satcat: | 39082 | ||||||||
| Mission Duration: | 165 days | ||||||||
| Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M s/n 418 | ||||||||
| Manufacturer: | RKK Energia | ||||||||
| Launch Mass: | 6950 kg | ||||||||
| Launch Date: | 11 February 2013, 14:41:46 UTC | ||||||||
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U | ||||||||
| Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 | ||||||||
| Disposal Type: | Deorbited | ||||||||
| Decay Date: | 26 July 2013, 00:42 UTC | ||||||||
| Orbit Epoch: | 11 February 2013[1] | ||||||||
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric | ||||||||
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth | ||||||||
| Orbit Periapsis: | 401 km | ||||||||
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 417 km | ||||||||
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° | ||||||||
| Orbit Period: | 92.74 minutes | ||||||||
| Apsis: | gee | ||||||||
| Docking: |
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| Cargo Mass: | 2638 kg | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Press: | 1368 kg (dry cargo) | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Fuel: | 346 kg | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Gas: | 50 kg | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Water: | 420 kg | ||||||||
| Programme: | Progress ISS Resupply | ||||||||
| Previous Mission: | Progress M-17M | ||||||||
| Next Mission: | Progress M-19M | ||||||||
Progress M-18M (ru|Прогресс М-18М|italic=yes), identified by NASA as Progress 50P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station during 2013. Progress M-18M was sent on a four-orbit rendezvous profile that was already demonstrated by the Progress M-16M and Progress M-17M spacecraft in 2012.
The spacecraft was launched on time at 14:41:46 UTC on 11 February 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.[2]
Progress M-18M docked with the Pirs at 20:35 UTC less than six hours after the launch. The successful docking climaxed the third successful Same-Day-Rendezvous in the International Space Station history.[3]
Progress M-18M delivered about of propellant, of oxygen and air, of water and about of spare parts, science gear and other supplies (dry cargo) to the Space Station.[4]
Progress M-18M undocked from the ISS on 25 July 2013. The re-entry procedure started around 23:53 UTC, on 25 July 2013. The destruction occurred at 00:42 UTC, on 26 July 2013 in the Pacific Ocean.[5]