Progress M-27 | |||||||||
Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||
Cospar Id: | 1995-020A | ||||||||
Satcat: | 23555[1] | ||||||||
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.227) | ||||||||
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] | ||||||||
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia | ||||||||
Launch Date: | 9 April 1995, 19:34:12 UTC | ||||||||
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U | ||||||||
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 | ||||||||
Docking: |
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Disposal Type: | Deorbited | ||||||||
Decay Date: | 23 May 1995, 03:27:12 UTC[4] | ||||||||
Orbit Epoch: | 9 April 1995 | ||||||||
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric | ||||||||
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth | ||||||||
Orbit Periapsis: | 187 km | ||||||||
Orbit Apoapsis: | 221 km | ||||||||
Orbit Inclination: | 51.7° | ||||||||
Orbit Period: | 88.6 minutes | ||||||||
Apsis: | gee | ||||||||
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) | ||||||||
Previous Mission: | Progress M-26 | ||||||||
Next Mission: | Progress M-28 |
Progress M-27 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-27 launched on 9 April 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[5]
Progress M-27 docked with the forward port of the Mir Core Module on 11 April 1995 at 21:00:44 UTC, and was undocked on 22 May 1995 at 23:42:37 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 23 May 1995, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:40:15 UTC and the mission ended at 03:27:52 UTC.