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Mission type
  
ISS resupply

COSPAR ID
  
2006-025A

Launch site
  
Baikonur Site 1/5

Inclination
  
51.6°

Rocket
  
Decay date
  
17 January 2007

Operator
  
Roskosmos

Spacecraft type
  
Progress-M 11F615A55

Disposal
  
Deorbited

Launch date
  
24 June 2006

Regime
  
Low Earth orbit

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Manufacturer
  
S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Similar
  
Progress M‑58, Progress M‑53, Progress M‑51, Progress M‑61, Progress M‑45

Progress M-57, identified by NASA as Progress 22 or 22P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 357.

Progress M-57 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 15:08:18 GMT on 24 June 2006. The spacecraft docked with the Pirs module at 16:25 GMT on 26 June. It remained docked for five and a half months before undocking at 23:23:52 GMT on 16 January 2007 to make way for Progress M-59. It was deorbited at 02:29 GMT on 17 January 2007. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 03:15:20 GMT.

Progress M-57 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.

References

Progress M-57 Wikipedia


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