Progress M-26 | |
Mission Type: | Mir resupply |
Cospar Id: | 1995-005A |
Satcat: | 23477[1] |
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.226) |
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia |
Launch Date: | 15 February 1995, 16:48:28 UTC |
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U |
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Docking: | |
Disposal Type: | Deorbited |
Decay Date: | 15 March 1995, 06:15 UTC[4] |
Orbit Epoch: | 15 February 1995 |
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
Orbit Periapsis: | 188 km |
Orbit Apoapsis: | 224 km |
Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
Orbit Period: | 88.6 minutes |
Apsis: | gee |
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) |
Previous Mission: | Progress M-25 |
Next Mission: | Progress M-27 |
Progress M-26 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-26 launched on 15 February 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[5]
Progress M-26 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 17 February 1995 at 18:21:34 UTC, and was undocked on 15 March 1995 at 02:26:38 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 15 March 1995, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 05:28 UTC and the mission ended at 06:15 UTC.