Progress M-27M
| Mission type | ISS resupply |
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| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2015-024A |
| SATCAT no. | 40619 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M 11F615A60 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Launch mass | 7,298 kg (16,089 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 28 April 2015, 07:09:50 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
| Launch site | Baikonur 31/6 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 08 May 2015, 02:04 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Perigee | 158 kilometres (98 mi) |
| Apogee | 184 kilometres (114 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.64 degrees |
| Period | 87.92 minutes |
| Epoch | 06 May 2015, 21:35:19 UTC |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Pirs nadir |
| Docking date | Docking attempt cancelled |
| Time docked | N/A |
| Cargo | |
| Mass | 2,357 kg (5,196 lb) |
| Pressurised | 1,393 kg (3,071 lb) |
| Fuel | 494 kg (1,089 lb) |
| Gaseous | 50 kg (110 lb) |
| Water | 420 kg (930 lb) |
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Progress M-27M (Russian: Прогресс М-27М), identified by NASA as Progress 59 or 59P, was a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos in an unsuccessful attempt to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.
Progress M-27M was launched on 28 April 2015, with a planned 6-hour rendezvous profile to the ISS. During the launch the spacecraft achieved low Earth orbit, but a malfunction occurred near the end of the upper stage burn shortly before the separation of the Progress spacecraft, generating a debris field and leaving the spacecraft spinning and unable to be fully controlled. The spacecraft was deemed to be a total loss.
On 8 May 2015 at 02:20 UTC, the spacecraft was confirmed to have undergone destructive reentry over the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Progress M-27M was the 27th Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft, with the serial number 426. It was built by RKK Energia and was operated by the Russian Federal Space Agency. This was the second time the upgraded Soyuz-2.1a rocket was used for an ISS mission launch
The spacecraft was launched on 28 April 2015 at 07:09 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft carried 2,357 kg (5,196 lb) of food, fuel and supplies, including 494 kg (1,089 lb) of propellant, 50 kg (110 lb) of oxygen, 420 kg (930 lb) of water, and 1,393 kg (3,071 lb) of spare parts, supplies and experiment hardware for the six members of the Expedition 43 crew aboard the International Space Station.
After reaching low Earth orbit, but before separation of the spacecraft from the rocket, communication with the vessel was lost. Ground controllers only received brief telemetry shortly after that confirmed spacecraft separation as well as the deployment of the solar panels, but were not able to confirm the deployment of rendezvous antennas of the KURS system. Initially controllers tried to fall back to the plan of making a 2-day rendezvous with the ISS, but this was also abandoned after ground stations were not able to communicate with the spacecraft during the next 3 orbits.
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