Mission type ISS assembly COSPAR ID 2001-041A Launch site Baikonur Site 1/5 Inclination 51.6° Rocket Soyuz-U Decay date 27 September 2001 | Operator Roskosmos Spacecraft type Progress (modified) Disposal Deorbited Launch date 14 September 2001 Regime Low Earth orbit | |
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Manufacturer S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Similar Progress M‑MIM2, Progress M‑45, Progress M‑66, Progress M1‑10, Progress M‑50 | ||
Progress M-SO1 was a modified Progress spacecraft used to deliver the Pirs module to the International Space Station. It was based on the Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the pressurised cargo module removed to accommodate Pirs, and had the serial number 301.
Progress M-SO1 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 23:34:55 GMT on 14 September 2001. The spacecraft docked with the Nadir port of the Zvezda module at 01:05 GMT on 17 September. It remained docked for nine and a half days before it was jettisonned from Pirs at 15:36 GMT on 26 September. It was deorbited at 23:30 GMT on the same day, and burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 00:01 GMT on 27 September.