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Progress M-33
A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type Mir resupply
COSPAR ID 1996-066A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.24633 [1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Progress (No.233)
Spacecraft type Progress-M [2]
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date19 November 1996, 23:20:38 UTC [1]
Rocket Soyuz-U [2]
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date12 March 1997, 03:23:37 UTC [3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee altitude197 km [4]
Apogee altitude242 km [4]
Inclination51.7° [4]
Period88.6 minutes [4]
Epoch19 November 1996
Docking with Mir
Docking port Kvant-1 aft [4]
Docking date22 November 1996, 01:01:30 UTC
Undocking date6 February 1997, 12:13:53 UTC
 

Progress M-33 ( Russian: Прогресс M-33) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in November 1996 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-33 launched on 19 November 1996 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket. [2] [5]

Docking

Progress M-33 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 22 November 1996 at 01:01:30 UTC, and was undocked on 6 February 1997 at 12:13:53 UTC. [3] [4] An unsuccessful redocking attempt was made on 4 March 1997 at 07:41 UTC. [4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 12 March 1997, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 02:35:00 UTC, with the mission ending at 03:23:37 UTC. [3] [4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-33"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  5. ^ "Progress M-33". NASA. Retrieved 3 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.