Progress 5

Progress 5
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission type Salyut 6 resupply
COSPAR ID 1979-022A
SATCAT no. 11292[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Progress 5 (No.104)
Spacecraft type Progress 7K-TG[2]
Manufacturer NPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date 12 March 1979, 05:47:28 (1979-03-12UTC05:47:28Z) UTC[1]
Rocket Soyuz-U[2]
Launch site Baikonur 31/6[2]
End of mission
Disposal Deorbited
Decay date 5 April 1979, 01:04 (1979-04-05UTC01:05Z) GMT[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 189 kilometres (117 mi)[4]
Apogee 256 kilometres (159 mi)[4]
Inclination 51.7 degrees[4]
Period 88.8 minutes[4]
Docking with Salyut 6
Docking port Aft[4]
Docking date 14 March 1979, 07:19:21 UTC[4]
Undocking date 3 April 1979, 16:10:00 UTC[4]
Time docked 20.4 days

Progress 5 (Russian: Прогресс 5), was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1979 to resupply the Salyut 6 space station.

Launch

Progress 5 launched on 12 March 1979 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2]

Docking

Progress 5 docked with Salyut 6 on 14 March 1979 at 07:19:21 GMT.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  3. "Progress 5". NASA. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Cargo spacecraft "Progress-5"". Manned Astronautics figures & facts. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007.
  5. "Salyut 6". Astronautix. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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