Mission type ISS resupply COSPAR ID 2003-039A Manufacturer RKK Energia | Operator Roskosmos | |
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Launch date 29 August 2003, 01:47:59 (2003-08-29UTC01:47:59Z) UTC Similar Progress M‑47, Progress M‑50, Progress M‑51, Progress M‑45, Progress M1‑10 | ||
Progress M-48, identified by NASA as Progress 12 or 12P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 248.
Progress M-48 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 01:47:59 GMT on 29 August 2003. The spacecraft docked with the Aft port of the Zvezda module at 03:40:45 GMT on 31 August. It remained docked for five months before undocking at 08:35:56 GMT on 28 January 2004 to make way for Progress M1-11. It was deorbited at 13:11 GMT on the same day. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 13:57:12 GMT.
Progress M-48 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.