Friday, May 19, 2000

Progress M-40

 1998-062A


Spacecraft 239, Progress M-40, was launched on 1998 Oct 25 by Soyuz-U No. 660.

Energiya's 25-m Znamya sail will deploy from Progress, while Mir crew will use TORU to point the sail. The plans for future applications include solar sails, power satellites, wake shields, meteor shields, solar reflectors, antennas, and telescopes.


Progress M-40 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1998 Oct 25  0414:57  Launch 
 0423:46  Blok-I sep 
 0750:50  TCM1 46.1s 19m/s 
 0841:30  TCM2 26s 11m/s 
1998 Oct 26  0514:29 TCM3 1.7s 0.7m/s 
1998 Oct 27  0336:03  TCM4 57s 23m/s 
 0419:45  TCM5 54s 22m/s 
 0543:41  Docked Kvant  
1999 Feb 4  0959:32  Undock Kvant 
  Station at 800m 
 1134  Deploy attempt 1 from Znamya 
 1354  Distance 4 km 
 1425  Deploy attempt 2, Mir distance 2 km 
1999 Feb 5  1016  Deorbit 
 1110  Reentry over Pacific 

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