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PROGRESS 29
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Progress 29 was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1987 to resupply the Mir space station.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 21, 1987 at 03:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 365 km
- Periapsis
- 343 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 91.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,957.38 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-034A
- NORAD catalog №
- 17878
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.03 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 11, 1987
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 11, 1987
- Time in service
- 20 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed