Progress M1-5
A Progress-M1 spacecraft
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| Mission type | Mir deorbit |
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| Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2001-003A |
| SATCAT no. | 26688 |
| Mission duration | 2 months |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M1 11F615A55 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 24 January 2001, 04:28:42 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Baikonur Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 23 March 2001, 05:59:24 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee | 256 kilometres (159 mi) |
| Apogee | 282 kilometres (175 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 89.89 minutes |
| Epoch | 26 January 2001 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft |
| Docking date | 27 January 2001, 05:33:31 UTC |
| Undocking date | N/A |
| Time docked | 2 months |
| Cargo | |
| Fuel | 2,678 kilograms (5,904 lb) |
Progress M1-5 was the Progress spacecraft which was launched by Russia in 2001 to the fifteen-year-old Mir space station before it naturally fell from orbit, potentially landing in a populated area. The Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Rosaviakosmos, was responsible for the mission.
Launched in January 2001 after a short delay due to a problem with Mir, on 27 January Progress M1-5 became the last spacecraft to dock with the station. It spent two months attached to the Kvant-1 module before deorbiting the station on 23 March 2001. Mir re-entered the atmosphere with Progress M1-5 still docked, disintegrating over the Pacific Ocean, with debris falling into the ocean at around 06:00 GMT. During the early stages of the unmanned Progress M1-5 mission, a manned Soyuz was placed on standby to launch in order to complete the mission if a problem occurred. The decision to deorbit Mir attracted both praise and criticism for Rosaviakosmos, while several campaigns to save the station were conducted.
Mir was the seventh and last manned space station to be launched as part of the Soviet space programme, and was the first true modular space station to be launched. The first component, the Core Module, was launched by a Proton-K rocket on 19 February 1986. This had been followed by six more modules, launched between 1987 and 1996, all using Proton-K rockets, except one which was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mir became the property of the Russian government, and the newly established Russian Aviation and Space Agency. It supported 28 long duration crews, visited by 40 manned Soyuz and Shuttle missions, whilst 64 unmanned Progress spacecraft were launched to support it. It was visited by 125 cosmonauts and astronauts, who performed 75 spacewalks.
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