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Mission type
  
ISS resupply

COSPAR ID
  
2004-019A

Launch site
  
Baikonur Site 1/5

Launch date
  
25 May 2004

Regime
  
Low Earth orbit

Reference system
  
Geocentric orbit

Operator
  
Roskosmos

Spacecraft type
  
Progress-M 11F615A55

Disposal
  
Deorbited

Rocket
  
Soyuz-U

Decay date
  
30 July 2004

Progress M-49

Manufacturer
  
S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Similar
  
Progress M‑50, Progress M‑51, Progress M‑47, Progress M‑45, Progress M‑53

Progress M-49, identified by NASA as Progress 14 or 14P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 249.

Progress M-49 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 12:34:23 GMT on 25 May 2004. The spacecraft docked with the Aft port of the Zvezda module at 13:54:43 GMT on 27 May. It remained docked for two months before undocking at 06:04:48 GMT on 30 July 2004 to make way for Progress M-50. It was deorbited at 10:37:00 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 11:23:35 GMT.

Progress M-49 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.

References

Progress M-49 Wikipedia