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Mission type
  
Mir resupply

COSPAR ID
  
2000-005A

Launch site
  
Baikonur Site 1/5

Launch date
  
1 February 2000

Regime
  
Low Earth orbit

Reference system
  
Operator
  
Roskosmos

Spacecraft type
  
Progress-M1 11F615A55

Disposal
  
Deorbited

Rocket
  
Decay date
  
26 April 2000

Manufacturer
  
S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Similar
  
Progress M1‑8, Progress M1‑4, Progress M1‑3, Progress M1‑7, Progress M1‑10

Progress M1-1 was a Progress spacecraft which was launched by Russia in 2000 to resupply the Mir space station. It was a Progress-M1 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 250. It was the first flight of the Progress-M1, a derivative of the Progress-M originally designed for resupplying the International Space Station, which was optimised for the transportation of fuel over pressurised cargo.

Progress M1-1 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 06:47:23 GMT on 1 February 2000. The spacecraft docked with Mir, which was at that time unmanned, at 08:02:28 GMT on 3 February – the docking port used was the aft port on the Kvant-1 module. It remained docked for 83 days before undocking at 16:32:43 GMT on 26 April to make way for Progress M1-2. It was deorbited at 19:26:03 GMT, and burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean around fifty minutes later.

Progress M1-1 was used to reboost Mir, which was rapidly decaying from orbit at the time of its arrival. It carried nitrogen to repressurise the station following a leak, as well as supplies for the EO-28 crew, who arrived aboard Mir in April.

References

Progress M1-1 Wikipedia


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