Progress 41

Progress 41 (Russian: Прогресс 41) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in March 1989 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.

Progress 41

A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1989-023A
SATCAT no.	19895[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.149)
Spacecraft type	Progress 7K-TG[2]
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	16 March 1989, 18:54:15 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U2[2]
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	25 April 1989, 12:02 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	187 km[3]
Apogee altitude	243 km[3]
Inclination	51.6°[3]
Period	88.8 minutes[3]
Epoch	16 March 1989
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date	18 March 1989, 20:50:46 UTC
Undocking date	21 April 1989, 01:46:15 UTC
Progress (spacecraft)

Launch

Progress 41 launched on 16 March 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]

Docking

Progress 41 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 18 March 1989 at 20:50:46 UTC, and was undocked on 21 April 1989 at 01:46:15 UTC.[3][5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 25 April 1989. Progress 41 deorbited in an uncontrolled decay, after it had run out of fuel from boosting Mir into a higher orbit. The mission ended at 12:02 UTC.[3][5]

See also

• 1989 in spaceflight
• List of Progress missions
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

References

1. "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
2. "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
3. "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 41"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
4. "Progress 41". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
5. "Mir". Astronautix. Retrieved 4 December 2020.