Friday, September 8, 2000

Progress M-34

 1997-014A


Launch mass was 7156 kg. It carried at least two Orlan-M suits to Mir in Apr 1997. It was undocked in June and a redocking experiment using the TORU system was attempted, with disastrous results as the craft collided with the Spektr module.


Progress M-34 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Apr 6  1604:04.9  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 1612:53.9  Blok-I sep 
 1941:45  TCM-1 
 2030:04  TCM-2 
1997 Apr 7  1656:16  TCM-3 
1997 Apr 8  1425:49  TCM-4
 1609:24  TCM-5

1730:03  Docked Kvant +X 
1997 Apr 15  1246:01  TCM raise Mir orbit 
1997 Jun 24 1022.50 Undocked Kvant +X 
1997 Jun 25  0700:52  TCM 1.5 m/s 
 0730:23  TCM 3.7 m/s 
 0841:47  TCM 1.7 m/s 

0902TORU manual control approach 
 0908:48 Braking 
 0909:51 Collided with Spektr module 
 0910:14  Second collision 
 0910?  Collisions with other modules 
 0918  TKG at 700m 
 0924:23  TORU shut off, TKG at 150m  
 0947  At 400m 
 1030  At 600m 
1997 Jun 28  0446:54  Test burn 1.7m/s 
 0923:00  Test burn 1.9 m/s 
1997 Jul 2  0534:58  Deorbit 86 m/s 205s burn 
 0614:50  Reentered over Pacific

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