Saturday, September 6, 1997

Progress M-4

 1990-072A


Progress M 11F615A55 No. 204 (Progress M-4) was launched in Aug 1990. It docked with Mir on Aug 17 delivering 2689 kg of cargo. After undocking on Sep 18 it carried out the Fokus plasma gun experiment injecting plasma into the ionosphere. One debris object was cataloged prior to reentry, possibly related to Fokus. 


Progress M-4 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1990 Aug 15  0400:38Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 0405  Blok-I burn 
 0409  Blok-I sep 
 0840 88.52 183 x 219 x 51.61 
 1200   89.70 249 x 269 x 51.60 
1990 Aug 16  0700   89.73 250 x 271 x 51.61 
1990 Aug 17  0230 89.71 249 x 270 x 51.61 
 0526:18Docked with Mir DP1 
1990 Aug 18  1000 92.03 367 x 380 x 51.61 
1990 Sep 17  1242:43  Undocked 
1990 Sep 18  0500 92.37 373 x 407 x 51.61 
 0620Fokus plasma source release 
1990 Sep 19  1730Object 72C tracked 
1990 Sep 20  1105Retrofire
 1142:49  Reentered over Pacific 

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