Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 1998-062A |
SATCAT no. | 25512[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.239) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 25 October 1998, 04:14:57 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 5 February 1999, 10:16:05 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 194 km[3] |
Apogee altitude | 238 km[3] |
Inclination | 51.6°[3] |
Period | 88.6 minutes[3] |
Epoch | 25 October 1998 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] |
Docking date | 27 October 1998, 05:34:41 UTC |
Undocking date | 4 February 1999, 09:59:32 UTC |
Progress M-40 (Russian: Прогресс M-40) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1998 to resupply the Mir space station, carry the Sputnik 41 satellite[4] and the unsuccessful Znamya 2.5 solar mirror.