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PROGRESS-M 40
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Progress M-40 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1998 to resupply the Mir space station, carry the Sputnik 41 satellite and the unsuccessful Znamya 2.5 solar mirror.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 25, 1998 at 04:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 367 km
- Periapsis
- 344 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 91.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7,086.22 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25512
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 17.41 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 5, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 5, 1999
- Time in service
- 103 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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