Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1998-031A |
SATCAT no. | 25340[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.238) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 14 May 1998, 22:12:59 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 29 October 1998, 03:27:00 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 194 km[3] |
Apogee altitude | 238 km[3] |
Inclination | 51.7°[3] |
Period | 88.5 minutes[3] |
Epoch | 14 May 1998 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 16 May 1998, 23:50:33 UTC |
Undocking date | 12 August 1998, 09:28:52 UTC |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 1 September 1998, 05:34:40 UTC |
Undocking date | 25 October 1998, 23:03:24 UTC |
Progress M-39 (Russian: Прогресс M-39) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1998 to resupply the Mir space station.