| Progress M-43 | |
| Mission Type: | Mir resupply |
| Cospar Id: | 2000-064A |
| Satcat: | 26570[1] |
| Spacecraft: | Progress (No.243) |
| Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] |
| Manufacturer: | RKK Energia |
| Launch Date: | 16 October 2000, 21:27:06 UTC |
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U |
| Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| Docking: | |
| Disposal Type: | Deorbited |
| Decay Date: | 29 January 2001, 01:04 UTC[4] |
| Orbit Epoch: | 16 October 2000 |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
| Orbit Periapsis: | 193 km |
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 244 km |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
| Orbit Period: | 88.4 minutes |
| Apsis: | gee |
| Programme: | Progress flights |
| Previous Mission: | Progress M1-3 |
| Next Mission: | Progress M1-4 |
| Programme2: | Progress Mir flights |
| Previous Mission2: | Progress M1-2 |
| Next Mission2: | Progress M1-5 |
Progress M-43 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 2000 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-43 launched on 16 October 2000 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket. The launch had been delayed from the previous day.[5]
Progress M-43 docked with Mir on 20 October 2000 at 21:16:05 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 29 January 2001, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:12 UTC.