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Progress 40
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1989-008A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.19783
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.148)
Spacecraft typeProgress 7K-TG
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date10 February 1989, 08:53:52 UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date5 March 1989, 01:08 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude187 km
Apogee altitude244 km
Inclination51.6°
Period88.8 minutes
Epoch10 February 1989
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft
Docking date12 February 1989, 10:29:38 UTC
Undocking date3 March 1989, 01:45:52 UTC
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Progress 40 (Russian: Прогресс 40) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1989 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress 40 launched on 10 February 1989 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.

Docking

Progress 40 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 12 February 1989 at 10:29:38 UTC, and was undocked on 3 March 1989 at 01:45:52 UTC.

Decay

It remained in orbit until 5 March 1989, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 01:08 UTC and the mission ended at 01:59 UTC.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 40"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. "Progress 40". NASA. Retrieved 4 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 4 December 2020.
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