Progress MS-1

Progress MS-01

Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2015-080A
SATCAT no.	41177
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-MS No.431
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	21 December 2015, 08:44:39 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz 2.1a
Launch site	Baikonur 31/6
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	July 3, 2016 at 7:03 UTC
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Pirs nadir
Docking date	23 December 2015, 10:27 UTC
Undocking date	2 July 2016, 23:48 UTC
Time docked	192 days
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Progress MS-01 (Russian: Прогресс МС or Прогресс МС-01), identified by NASA as Progress 62 or 62P is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2015. It was launched on December 21, 2015, to deliver cargo to the ISS. Progress MS-1 is the first vehicle in the Progress-MS series.

The launch was initially scheduled for 21 November 2015. Progress MS-1 was launched on 21 December 2015 at 08:44:39 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Progress MS-1 docked with the Pirs docking compartment on 23 December 2015 at 10:27 UTC.

The Progress MS spacecraft has upgraded communications and electronics from previous Progress vehicles. After launch, ground controllers were able to communicate the Progress MS via a Russian Luch data relay satellite in geosynchronous orbit. This was described as the first time a Progress or Soyuz spacecraft had such capability.

Other upgrades include:

Progress MS-1 was launched on a Soyuz-2, the first launch of the rocket since the failed launch of Progress M-27M. The Soyuz-U rocket was used for subsequent Progress flights until this flight.

The upper stage reentry was visible over Arizona and Nevada on December 22 at 5:30 UTC.

The spacecraft initiated the de-orbit maneuver on July 3, 2016 at 7:03 UTC, with an expected landing of any possible debris on the Pacific Ocean by 7:50. UTC