| Progress M-2 | |||||||||||
| Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 1989-099A | ||||||||||
| 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: |
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Progress M-2 (Russian: Прогресс М-2|italic=yes), was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1989 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The nineteenth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, and had the serial number 202.[2] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-5 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
Progress M-2 was launched at 03:30:50 GMT on 20 December 1989, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[2] It docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir at 05:41:21 GMT on 22 December.[3] [4] During the time it was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 390kmby393kmkm (240milesby244mileskm). Progress M-2 remained docked with Mir for forty eight days before undocking at 02:33:07 GMT on 9 February 1990[3] to make way for the Soyuz TM-9 spacecraft, carrying the EO-6 crew to the station.
Progress M-2 was deorbited at 07:07:00 GMT, a few hours after it had undocked.[3] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 07:56 GMT.[5] [3]