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PROGRESS-M 56
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Progress M-56, identified by NASA as Progress 21P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 356.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 24, 2006 at 04:03 PM 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
- 350 km
- Periapsis
- 334 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 91.38 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29057
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.1849 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 19, 2006
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 19, 2006
- Time in service
- 148 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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