| Progress M-6 | |||||||||||
| Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 1991-002A | ||||||||||
| 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-6 (Russian: Прогресс М-6|italic=yes) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The twenty-fourth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[2] and had the serial number 205.[3] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-8 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
Progress M-6 was launched at 14:50:27 GMT on 14 January 1991, on a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[3] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir at 16:35:25 GMT on 16 January.[4] [5]
During the 58 days for which Progress M-6 was docked with it, Mir was in an orbit of around 358kmby388kmkm (222milesby241mileskm), inclined at 51.6 degrees. Progress M-6 undocked from Mir at 12:46:41 GMT on 15 March, and was deorbited a few hours later at 17:14:00.[4] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at around 18:07:26.[6] [4]