Progress M-29 | |
Mission Type: | Mir resupply |
Cospar Id: | 1995-053A |
Satcat: | 23678[1] |
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.229) |
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia |
Launch Date: | 8 October 1995, 18:50:40 UTC |
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U |
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Docking: | |
Disposal Type: | Deorbited |
Decay Date: | 19 December 1995, 16:15 UTC[4] |
Orbit Epoch: | 8 October 1995 |
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
Orbit Periapsis: | 197 km |
Orbit Apoapsis: | 242 km |
Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
Orbit Period: | 88.6 minutes |
Apsis: | gee |
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) |
Previous Mission: | Progress M-28 |
Next Mission: | Progress M-30 |
Progress M-29 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-29 launched on 8 October 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[5]
Progress M-29 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 10 October 1995 at 20:32:40 UTC, and was undocked on 19 December 1995 at 09:15:05 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 19 December 1995, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 15:26 UTC and the mission ended at 16:15 UTC.