Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Progress M-51

 2004-051A


Spacecraft 351, Mission 16P. Mass 7268 kg launch, 6912 kg at docking. Undocking mass 5655 kg.

The ship carried ROKVISS, a German-built robot arm (Robotic Components Verification on ISS) which will be EVA-mounted externally.

Biorisk may also have been carried.

After undocking Progress was used for tests of microgravity attitude control regimes.


PM51 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2004 Dec 23  2219:34  Launch by Soyuz-U Zh15000-092  KB LC1 
  T+1:58 strapon sep 
  T+2:41 GO sep 
  T+4:47 Blok A sep 
  T+4:57 KhO sep 
  T+9:45 MECO 
 2228:24  T+9:49 Blok I sep 
2004 Dec 24  0205:41  DV1 21.2m/s 53s 
 0643:21  DV2 16.9m/s 43s 
2004 Dec 24  2344:21 DV3 1.3m/s 5s 
2004 Dec 25  2133:35  14m/s 38s range 339 km 
 2217:56  18m/s 47s range 104 km 
 2259:01  8m/s range 2.4 km 
 2307:53  2m/s range 600m 
 2319  Range 160m 
2004 Dec 25  2358  Docked with Zvezda 
2005 Feb 21    91.71 355 x 361 x 51.6 
2005 Feb 27  1606:30  Undocked from Zvezda  91.70 355 x 360 x 51.6 
 1609:30  0.7 m/s sep  
 1908:00  Lower perigee 11m/s  91.28 317 x 357 x 51.6  
2005 Mar 9  1617:00  Deorbit burn 152s 79.7 m/s 48.2N 59.5E  315 x 354 x 51.6 
 1619:32? DO cutoff 51.0N 73.5E  46 x 354 x 51.6  
 1620:02  DO cutoff 
 1652:12  Entry  

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