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Mission type
  
ISS resupply

SATCAT no.
  
40097

Launch site
  
Mass
  
2,322 kg

Rocket
  
COSPAR ID
  
2014-042A

Spacecraft type
  
Progress-M 11F615A60

Disposal
  
Deorbited

Launch date
  
23 July 2014

Decay date
  
19 November 2014

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Manufacturer
  
S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Operator
  
Roscosmos State Corporation

Similar
  
Progress M‑23M, Progress M‑25M, Progress M‑22M, Progress M‑26M, Progress M‑21M

Progress M-24M (Russian: Прогресс М-24М), identified by NASA as Progress 56 or 56P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2014. Progress M-24M was launched on a 6-hours rendezvous profile towards the ISS. The 24th Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, it had the serial number 423 and was built by RKK Energia.

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Launch

The spacecraft was launched on 23 July 2014 at 21:44 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Docking

Progress M-24M docked with the Pirs docking compartment on July 24, 2014 at 03:31 GMT, less than six hours after launch.

Cargo

The Progress spacecraft carries 2322 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.

References

Progress M-24M Wikipedia


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