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Progress M-42

Progress M-42

Russian cargo spacecraft

Progress M-42 (Russian: Прогресс M-42) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1999 to resupply the Mir space station.

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Launch

Progress M-42 launched on 16 July 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][5]

Docking

Progress M-42 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 18 July 1999 at 17:53:21 UTC, and was undocked on 2 February 2000 at 03:11:52 UTC.[4][3]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 2 February 2000, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 06:10:40 UTC and the mission ended at 06:57:20 UTC.[4][3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-42"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  5. [5]
    "Progress M-42". NASA. Retrieved 3 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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