Progress M-39 | |||||||||||||||||||
Mission Type: | Mir resupply | ||||||||||||||||||
Cospar Id: | 1998-031A | ||||||||||||||||||
Satcat: | 25340[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.238) | ||||||||||||||||||
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia | ||||||||||||||||||
Launch Date: | 14 May 1998, 22:12:59 UTC | ||||||||||||||||||
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U | ||||||||||||||||||
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Docking: |
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Disposal Type: | Deorbited | ||||||||||||||||||
Decay Date: | 29 October 1998, 03:27:00 UTC | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Epoch: | 14 May 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Periapsis: | 194 km | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Apoapsis: | 238 km | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Inclination: | 51.7° | ||||||||||||||||||
Orbit Period: | 88.5 minutes | ||||||||||||||||||
Apsis: | gee | ||||||||||||||||||
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) | ||||||||||||||||||
Previous Mission: | Progress M-38 | ||||||||||||||||||
Next Mission: | Progress M-40 |
Progress M-39 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1998 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-39 launched on 14 May 1998 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[4]
Progress M-39 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 16 May 1998 at 23:50:33 UTC, and was undocked on 12 August 1998 at 09:28:52 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-28.[5] Following the redocking of Soyuz TM-28 to the Mir Core Module forward port, Progress M-39 was redocked to the Kvant-1 aft port on 1 September 1998 at 05:34:40 UTC. Progress M-39 was finally undocked on 25 October 1998 at 23:03:24 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 29 October 1998, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 03:27:00 UTC, with the mission ending at 04:14:52 UTC.