Progress 41
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| Mission type | Mir resupply |
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| COSPAR ID | 1989-023A |
| SATCAT no. | 19895[1] |
| Mission duration | 39 days, 17 hours and 8 minutes |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.149) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 16 March 1989, 18:54:15 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 25 April 1989, 12:02 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 187 km[3] |
| Apogee altitude | 243 km[3] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
| Period | 88.8 minutes[3] |
| Epoch | 16 March 1989 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
| Docking date | 18 March 1989, 20:50:46 UTC |
| Undocking date | 21 April 1989, 01:46:15 UTC |
| Time docked | 33 days, 4 hours and 55 minutes |
Progress 41 (Russian: Прогресс 41) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in March 1989 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.
Launch
[edit]Progress 41 launched on 16 March 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
[edit]Progress 41 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 18 March 1989 at 20:50:46 UTC, and was undocked on 21 April 1989 at 01:46:15 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
[edit]It remained in orbit until 25 April 1989. Progress 41 deorbited in an uncontrolled decay, after it had run out of fuel from boosting Mir into a higher orbit. The mission ended at 12:02 UTC.[3][5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 41"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
- ^ "Progress 41". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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