Progress M-9
| Type | Progress-M 11F615A55 |
|---|---|
| Space station | Mir |
| Station crew | EO-9 |
| Contractors | NPO Energia |
| Carrier Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
| Launch site | Baikonur Site 1/5 |
| Launch date | 20 August 1991 22:54:10 GMT |
| Decay Date | 30 September 1991 |
| COSPAR ID | 1991-057A |
| Free flight time | 2 days |
| Docked time | 38 days |
| Docking | |
| Docking port | Core Forward |
| Docking date | 23 August 1991 00:54:17 GMT |
| Undocking date | 30 September 1991 01:53:00 GMT |
| Orbit | |
| Regime | LEO |
| Periapsis | 379 kilometres (235 mi)[1] |
| Apoapsis | 396 kilometres (246 mi)[1] |
| Inclination | 51.6° |
| Mass | |
| Total | 7,250 kg (16,000 lb) |
Progress M-9 was a Soviet unmanned cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station.[2] The twenty-seventh of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[3] and had the serial number 210.[4] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-9 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres. It was the third Progress spacecraft to carry a VBK-Raduga capsule, which was used to return equipment and experiment results to Earth.
Progress M-9 was launched at 22:54:10 GMT on 20 August 1991, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[4] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the forward port of Mir's core module at 00:54:17 GMT on 23 August.[5][6]
During the thirty eight days for which Progress M-9 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 379 by 396 kilometres (205 by 214 nmi), inclined at 51.6 degrees.[1] Progress M-9 undocked from Mir at 01:53:00 GMT on 30 September, and was deorbited few hours later at 07:45, to a destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean.[1][5] The Raduga capsule landed in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic at 08:16:24 GMT.[6]
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References [edit]
- ^ a b c d McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ "Progress M-9". NSSDC Master Catalog. US National Space Science Data Center. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ Krebs, Gunter. "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ a b McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ a b Anikeev, Alexander. "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-9"". Manned Astronautics - Figures & Facts. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ a b Wade, Mark. "Progress M". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-08-28.[dead link]
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