Friday, July 4, 2003

Progress M-43

 2000-064A


Spacecraft 243 was assigned to reboost the Mir station while it was uninhabited pending a planned MirCorp mission.

Progress M-43 was successfully launched at 21:27:06.038 UTC on Oct 16 from the LC1 of Baykonur cosmodrome. Launch mass is 6860 kg. Cargo of 1170 kg of fuel.

Mass was: 532 kg in GO; 872 kg OKD propellant; 582 kg water and O2; 300 kg further propellant? Remaining mass would be 4576 kg. Post undocking mass was 5800 kg.

The long 4-day rendezvous saved on fuel.


Progress M-43 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Oct 16  2127:06  Launch  KB 
 2136  Blok-I sep 
2000 Oct 17  0203:57  TCM-1 28s DPO 2.6m/s  194 x250 x 51.6 
 2101:46  TCM-2 415s 30m/s  192 x 340 x 51.6 
2000 Oct 18  1850:00  TCM3 5s 2 m/s  197 x 335 x 51.6 
2000 Oct 19  1831:54  TCM4 454s 33 m/s  284 x 350 x 51.6 
2000 Oct 20  2116:06  Docked with Mir (Kvant +X) 
2000 Oct 24  2012:34  SKD burn 298s 9m/s 
2001 Jan 25  0519:23  Undocked from Kvant 
 0733:55  TCM 9.5m/s 
2001 Jan 29  0211:55  Deorbit burn 64.6m/s 125s 
 0245?Reentry 

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