Progress M-01M
 Progress M-01M seen from the ISS |
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| Type | Progress-M 11F615A60 |
|---|---|
| Organisation | Roskosmos |
| Space station | ISS |
| Station crew | Expedition 18 |
| Contractors | RSC Energia |
| Carrier Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Baikonur Site 1/5 |
| Launch date | 26 November 2008 12:38 GMT |
| Decay Date | 8 February 2009 08:20 GMT |
| COSPAR ID | 2008-060A |
| Docking | |
| Docking port | Pirs |
| Docking date | 30 November 2008 12:28 GMT |
| Undocking date | 6 February 2009 04:10 GMT |
| Time docked | ~2 months |
| Orbit | |
| Regime | LEO |
| Inclination | 51.6° |
| Mass | |
| Cargo | 2,423 kg (5,340 lb) |
Progress M-01M, identified by NASA as Progress 31 or 31P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was the first flight of the Progress-M 11F615A60, which featured a TsVM-101 digital flight computer and MBITS digital telemetry system,[1] in place of the earlier analogue systems.
It was launched at 12:38 GMT on 26 November 2008 from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz-U carrier rocket. Following a four day free flight, it docked with Pirs module of the ISS at 12:28 GMT on 30 November. It remained docked until 6 February 2009, when it undocked at 04:10 GMT. It subsequently spent two days in free flight, before being deorbited, and burning up in the atmosphere at 08:19 GMT on 8 February.[2]
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Cargo [edit]
Progress M-01M carried 2,423 kilograms (5,340 lb) of cargo, consisting of which 820 kilograms (1,800 lb) of fuel, 210 kilograms (460 lb) of water, and 1,343 kilograms (2,960 lb) of dry cargo. The dry cargo included Japanese food for Koichi Wakata, who arrived aboard the station in March 2009 as part of Expedition 18.[3][4]
Antenna problem [edit]
Immediately after launch, an antenna used by the spacecraft's Kurs docking system failed to deploy.[5] The antenna was successfully deployed about three hours later after flight controllers resent the deployment command,[4] however the spacecraft was docked using the backup TORU system,[6] controlled by cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, as a precaution.
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References [edit]
- ^ Krebs, Gunter. "Progress-M 1M - 10M (11F615A60, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ Zak, Anatoly (2009-02-10). "Progress M-01M cargo ship". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 2009-04-07.[dead link]
- ^ "Russia sends upgraded cargo ship to space station". Fox News. 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ a b "Progress launched to ISS". SpaceToday. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ Malik, Tariq (2008-11-26). "Russian Cargo Ship on Course for Space Station". Space.com. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Unmanned Russian resupply spacecraft docks with ISS". SpaceDaily. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
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