Wednesday, December 25, 2002

Progress M-46

 2002-033A


ISS mission 8P used spacecraft No. 246, Progress M-46. Mass was 7290 kg. It carried 2580 kg of cargo including 825 kg of fuel, as well as 50 kg of oxygen and 1455 kg of dry cargo.

Launch plan was to spend a day stationkeeping 30 km behind the station to study problems with the Kurs system.

By Aug 23 278 kg had been transferred from P to SM, leaving 432 kg on P.

After undocking, M46 remained in orbit to carry out an Earth photography experiment.


Progress M-46 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2002 Jun 26  0536:30  Launch by Soyuz-U KB 
 0540  Stage 3 burn 
 0545:20  T+8:50 Stage 3 MECO 
 0545:30? Stage 3 sep  193 x 245 x 51.6 (RKA) 
 0915:40s DV1A 28m/s 70s  222 x 289 x 51.6 (RKA) 
 0947:02s DV1B 10m/s 26s  255 x 297 x 51.6 (RKA) 
2002 Jun 27 0659:19s DV2 2m/s 6s  262 x 297 x 51.6 (RKA) 
2002 Jun 28 0412:47s  DV3A 30m/s 74s  263 x 398 x 51.6(RKA) 
 0458:05s  DV3B 39m/s 96s  392 x 407 x 51.6 (RKA) 
 0720  Rev 33-34 Kurs tests complete 
 0952:29s  DV4 0.2m/s 1.8s  392 x 407 x 51.6 
2002 Jun 29 0352DV for approach 
 0545:08s  Approach phase 
 0623  Docking with Zvezda 
 0930s  HO 
2002 Aug 1   Burn, raise apogee by 14 km 
2002 Sep 11  2310s Reboost 1.6m/s, 121 kg of prop 
2002 Sep 24  1358:49  Undocked from Zvezda 
 1658  TCM 
  Begin photo mission 
2002 Oct 14  0934:00  Deorbit 42.5N 54.4E 
 0937:05  Deorbit complete 
 1010:53  Entry 21.3S 163.4E 
 1021:59  Impact in POR 3000 km SE NZ, 42.0S 138.2W

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