Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1997-081A |
SATCAT no. | 25102[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.237) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 December 1997, 08:45:02 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 15 March 1998, 22:14:30 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193 km[3] |
Apogee altitude | 242 km[3] |
Inclination | 51.7°[3] |
Period | 88.6 minutes[3] |
Epoch | 20 December 1997 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 22 December 1997, 10:22:20 UTC |
Undocking date | 30 January 1998, 12:53 UTC |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 23 February 1998, 10:22:20 UTC |
Undocking date | 15 March 1998, 19:16:01 UTC |
Progress M-37 (Russian: Прогресс M-37) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1997 to resupply the Mir space station.