Progress 38
Progress 38 (Russian: Прогресс 38) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in September 1988 to resupply the Mir space station.
|  A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply | 
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1988-083A | 
| SATCAT no. | 19486[1] | 
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.146) | 
| Spacecraft type | Progress 7K-TG[2] | 
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia | 
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 9 September 1988, 23:33:40 UTC[1] | 
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2[2] | 
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 | 
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited | 
| Decay date | 23 November 1988, 18:26:00 UTC[3] | 
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric | 
| Regime | Low Earth | 
| Perigee altitude | 187 km[3] | 
| Apogee altitude | 248 km[3] | 
| Inclination | 51.6°[3] | 
| Period | 88.9 minutes[3] | 
| Epoch | 9 September 1988 | 
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[3] | 
| Docking date | 12 September 1988, 01:22:28 UTC | 
| Undocking date | 23 November 1988, 12:12:46 UTC | 
Launch
    
Progress 38 launched on 9 September 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]
Docking
    
Progress 38 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 12 September 1988 at 01:22:28 UTC, and was undocked on 23 November 1988 at 12:12:46 UTC.[3][5]
Decay
    
It remained in orbit until 23 November 1988, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 18:26:00 UTC and the mission ended at 19:06:58 UTC.[3][5]
References
    
- "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 38"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
-  "Progress 38". NASA. Retrieved 7 December 2020.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.