| Progress M-3 | |||||||||||
| Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 1990-020A | ||||||||||
| 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-3 (Russian: Прогресс М-3|italic=yes) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1990 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The twentieth of sixty four Progress flights to visit Mir, it was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, and had the serial number 203.[2] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-6 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
Progress M-3 was launched at 23:10:57 GMT on 28 February 1990, 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 at 01:04:32 GMT on 3 March.[3] [4] During the 56 days for which it was docked with Mir, the station was in an orbit of around 378kmby400kmkm (235milesby200mileskm), with 51.6 degrees of inclination.
Progress M-3 undocked at 20:24:43 GMT on 27 April[3] to make way for Progress 42. It was deorbited at 00:00:00 GMT the next day.[3] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 00:52 GMT.[5] [3]