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Russian cargo spacecraft From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Progress M-43 (Russian: Прогресс M-43) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 2000 to resupply the Mir space station.
![]() A Progress-M spacecraft | |
Mission type | Mir resupply |
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COSPAR ID | 2000-064A |
SATCAT no. | 26570[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress (No.243) |
Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 16 October 2000, 21:27:06 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 29 January 2001, 01:04 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193 km[4] |
Apogee altitude | 244 km[4] |
Inclination | 51.6°[4] |
Period | 88.4 minutes[4] |
Epoch | 16 October 2000 |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[4] |
Docking date | 20 October 2000, 21:16:05 UTC |
Undocking date | 25 January 2001, 05:19:49 UTC |
Progress Mir flights |
Progress M-43 launched on 16 October 2000 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2] The launch had been delayed from the previous day.[5]
Progress M-43 docked with Mir on 20 October 2000 at 21:16:05 UTC.[4]
It remained in orbit until 29 January 2001, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:12 UTC.[4]
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