Progress M-42 | |
Mission Type: | Mir resupply |
Cospar Id: | 1999-038A |
Satcat: | 25858[1] |
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.242) |
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia |
Launch Date: | 16 July 1999, 16:37:33 UTC |
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U |
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Docking: | |
Disposal Type: | Deorbited |
Decay Date: | 2 February 2000, 06:10:40 UTC |
Orbit Epoch: | 16 July 1999 |
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
Orbit Periapsis: | 192 km |
Orbit Apoapsis: | 249 km |
Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
Orbit Period: | 88.6 minutes |
Apsis: | gee |
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) |
Previous Mission: | Progress M-41 |
Next Mission: | Progress M-43 |
Progress M-42 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1999 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-42 launched on 16 July 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[4]
Progress M-42 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 18 July 1999 at 17:53:21 UTC, and was undocked on 2 February 2000 at 03:11:52 UTC.[5]
It remained in orbit until 2 February 2000, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 06:10:40 UTC and the mission ended at 06:57:20 UTC.