Progress 39
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1988-114A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.19728[1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.147)
Spacecraft typeProgress 7K-TG[2]
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date25 December 1988, 04:11:37 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U2[2]
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date7 February 1989, 13:49 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude187 km[3]
Apogee altitude238 km[3]
Inclination51.6°[3]
Period88.8 minutes[3]
Epoch25 December 1988
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date27 December 1988, 05:35:10 UTC
Undocking date7 February 1989, 06:45:34 UTC
 

Progress 39 (Russian: Прогресс 39) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1988 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress 39 launched on 25 December 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]

Docking

Progress 39 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 27 December 1988 at 05:35:10 UTC, and was undocked on 7 February 1989 at 06:45:34 UTC.[3][5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 7 February 1989, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at around 12:49 UTC and the mission ended at 13:49 UTC.[3][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 39"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Progress 39". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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