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Mission type
  
ISS resupply

COSPAR ID
  
2014-005A

Spacecraft type
  
Progress-M 11F615A60

Launch date
  
5 February 2014

Decay date
  
18 April 2014

Operator
  
Roskosmos

SATCAT no.
  
39506

Launch site
  
Baikonur 1/5

Rocket
  
Soyuz-U

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Manufacturer
  
S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Similar
  
Progress M‑23M, Progress M‑24M, Progress M‑25M, Progress M‑20M, Progress M‑21M

Progress M-22M (Russian: Прогресс М-22М), identified by NASA as Progress 54 or 54P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2014. Progress M-22M was built by RKK Energia. Progress M-22M was launched on a 6-hours rendezvous profile towards the ISS. The 22nd Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, it had the serial number 422 and was built by RKK Energia.

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Launch

The spacecraft was launched on 5 February 2014 at 16:23 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch was the first Russian orbital launch of 2014.

Docking

Progress M-22M docked with the Pirs docking compartment on 5 February at 22:22 GMT, less than six hours after launch.

Undocking and Reentry

Progress M-22M undocked from the ISS on 7 April 2014, and was de-orbited on 18 April after supporting a scientific experiment in free-fly mode.

Cargo

The Progress spacecraft carries 2370 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.

References

Progress M-22M Wikipedia