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Progress 31
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1987-066A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.18283
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.138)
Spacecraft typeProgress 7K-TG
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date3 August 1987, 20:44:11 UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date23 September 1987, 00:22:00 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude187 km
Apogee altitude250 km
Inclination51.6°
Period88.9 minutes
Epoch3 August 1987
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft
Docking date5 August 1987, 22:27:35 UTC
Undocking date21 September 1987, 23:57:41 UTC
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Progress 31 (Russian: Прогресс 31) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in August 1987 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress 31 launched on 3 August 1987 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.

Docking

Progress 31 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 5 August 1987 at 22:27:35 UTC, and was undocked on 21 September 1987 at 23:57:41 UTC.

Decay

It remained in orbit until 23 September 1987, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 00:22:00 UTC and the mission ended at 01:02 UTC.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 31"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. "Progress 31". NASA. Retrieved 6 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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