Progress M-35

A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1997-033A
SATCAT no.	24851[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.235)
Spacecraft type	Progress-M[2]
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	5 July 1997, 04:11:54 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U[2]
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	7 October 1997, 16:41 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	188 km[3]
Apogee altitude	248 km[3]
Inclination	51.6°[3]
Period	88.6 minutes[3]
Epoch	5 July 1997
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date	7 July 1997, 05:59:24 UTC
Undocking date	6 August 1997, 11:46:45 UTC
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date	18 August 1997, 12:52:48 UTC
Undocking date	7 October 1997, 12:03:47 UTC
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Progress M-35 (Russian: Прогресс M-35) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1997 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-35 launched on 5 July 1997 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.^[2][4]

Docking

Progress M-35 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 7 July 1997 at 05:59:24 UTC, and was undocked on 6 August 1997 at 11:46:45 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-26.^[3][5] Following a redocking of Soyuz TM-26 to the forward port of the Mir Core Module, Progress M-35 was redocked at the Kvant-1 aft port on 18 August 1997 at 12:52:48 UTC. Progress M-35 was finally undocked on 7 October 1997 at 12:03:47 UTC.^[3][5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 7 October 1997, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 16:41 UTC, with the mission ending at 17:23 UTC.^[3][5]