Monday, September 14, 1998

Progress 40

 1989-008A


Progress-40 (Progress No. 148, 7K-TG No. 148) was launched in Feb 1989. It carried 1993 kg of cargo, including the test of the Kotan memory retaining structure - two circular loop antennae which were deployed from the side of Progress after undocking on Mar 3.


Progress-40 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1989 Feb 10  0853:52  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 0902  Blok-I sep 
 0930   88.80 187 x 244 x 51.6 
 1430   89.31 208 x 274 x 51.6 
1989 Feb 11  1430   90.62 268 x 342 x 51.6 
1989 Feb 12  0000   90.61 268 x 342 x 51.6 
 0930   90.93 287 x 355 x 51.6 
 1029:38  Docked with Mir, Kvant DP2 
 2130   91.65 347 x 364 x 51.6 
1989 Mar 3  0145:52  Undocked 
 0147  Memory retaining struct. deploy test 

0500? Structures sep (89-08C,D) 
1989 Mar 5  0108  Deorbited 
 0159  Reentered 

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