| Progress MS-15 | |||||||
| Names List: | Progress 76P | ||||||
| Mission Type: | ISS resupply | ||||||
| Operator: | Roscosmos | ||||||
| Cospar Id: | 2020-050A | ||||||
| Satcat: | 45937 | ||||||
| Website: | https://www.roscosmos.ru/ | ||||||
| Spacecraft: | Progress MS-15 | ||||||
| Spacecraft Type: | Progress MS | ||||||
| Manufacturer: | Energia | ||||||
| Launch Mass: | 7000 kg | ||||||
| Payload Mass: | 2540 kg | ||||||
| Launch Date: | 23 July 2020, 14:26:21 UTC | ||||||
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-2.1a | ||||||
| Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 31 | ||||||
| Launch Contractor: | Progress Rocket Space Centre | ||||||
| Disposal Type: | Deorbited | ||||||
| Decay Date: | 9 February 2021, 09:13 UTC | ||||||
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric orbit | ||||||
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth orbit | ||||||
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.65° | ||||||
| Apsis: | gee | ||||||
| Docking: |
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| Cargo Mass: | 2540 kg | ||||||
| Cargo Mass Press: | 2540 kg | ||||||
| Cargo Mass Fuel: | 620 kg | ||||||
| Cargo Mass Water: | 420 kg | ||||||
| Cargo Mass Gas: | 46 kg (oxygen) | ||||||
| Insignia Size: | 200px | ||||||
| Programme: | Progress ISS Resupply | ||||||
| Previous Mission: | Progress MS-14 | ||||||
| Next Mission: | Progress MS-16 | ||||||
Progress MS-15, Russian production No. 444, identified by NASA as Progress 76P, was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This was the 167th flight of a Progress spacecraft.
The Progress-MS is an uncrewed freighter based on the Progress-M featuring improved avionics. This improved variant first launched on 21 December 2015. It has the following improvements:
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was used to launch Progress MS-15 to the International Space Station. Progress MS-15 was launched at 14:26:21 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 on a fast-track trajectory. Following a nominal launch, Progress MS-15 docked with the Pirs port on the ISS two orbits later at 17:45:00 UTC.
Around 3 hours 20 minutes after the launch, Progress MS-15 successfully docked automatically at the nadir port of the Pirs module at 17:45:00 UTC, where it remained until February 2021.[1] After its mission was completed, Progress MS-15 departed and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere for destruction over the South Pacific Ocean.[1]
The Progress MS-15 spacecraft delivered of cargo, with of this being dry cargo. The following is a breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS:
The Progress MS-15 remained docked at the station through on 9 February 2021, when it departed with trash and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere for destruction over the South Pacific Ocean.[1] The Pirs module, originally scheduled to be removed and discarded at the end of this mission, will stay attached to the station until the arrival of the Nauka module.