Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1995-020A |
SATCAT no. | 23555[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.227) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 9 April 1995, 19:34:12 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 23 May 1995, 03:27:12 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 187 km[4] |
Apogee altitude | 221 km[4] |
Inclination | 51.7°[4] |
Period | 88.6 minutes[4] |
Epoch | 9 April 1995 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Mir Core Module forward[4] |
Docking date | 11 April 1995, 21:00:44 UTC |
Undocking date | 22 May 1995, 23:42:37 UTC |
Progress M-27 (Russian: Прогресс M-27) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.