Progress 5
 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Salyut 6 resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1979-022A |
| SATCAT no. | 11292[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress 5 (No.104) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 12 March 1979, 05:47:28 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur 31/6[2] |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 5 April 1979, 01:04 GMT[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 189 kilometres (117 mi)[4] |
| Apogee altitude | 256 kilometres (159 mi)[4] |
| Inclination | 51.7 degrees[4] |
| Period | 88.8 minutes[4] |
| Docking with Salyut 6 | |
| Docking port | Aft[4] |
| Docking date | 14 March 1979, 07:19:21 UTC[4] |
| Undocking date | 3 April 1979, 16:10:00 UTC[4] |
| Time docked | 20.4 days |
Progress 5 (Russian: Прогресс 5), was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1979 to resupply the Salyut 6 space station.
Launch
Progress 5 launched on 12 March 1979 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2]
Docking
Progress 5 docked with Salyut 6 on 14 March 1979 at 07:19:21 GMT.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ "Progress 5". NASA. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Cargo spacecraft "Progress-5"". Manned Astronautics figures & facts. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007.
- ^ "Salyut 6". Astronautix. Retrieved 23 December 2017.