Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1996-066A |
SATCAT no. | 24633[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.233) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 19 November 1996, 23:20:38 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 12 March 1997, 03:23:37 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 197 km[4] |
Apogee altitude | 242 km[4] |
Inclination | 51.7°[4] |
Period | 88.6 minutes[4] |
Epoch | 19 November 1996 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[4] |
Docking date | 22 November 1996, 01:01:30 UTC |
Undocking date | 6 February 1997, 12:13:53 UTC |
Progress M-33 (Russian: Прогресс M-33) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in November 1996 to resupply the Mir space station.