Progress M-25

Progress M-25 (Russian: Прогресс M-25) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in November 1994 to resupply the Mir space station.

Progress M-25

A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1994-075A
SATCAT no.	23348[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.225)
Spacecraft type	Progress-M[2]
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	11 November 1994, 07:21:58 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U[2]
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	16 February 1995, 16:45 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	184 km[4]
Apogee altitude	238 km[4]
Inclination	51.6°[4]
Period	88.7 minutes[4]
Epoch	11 November 1994
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[4]
Docking date	13 November 1994, 09:04:29 UTC
Undocking date	16 February 1995, 13:03:00 UTC
Progress (spacecraft)

Launch

Progress M-25 launched on 11 November 1994 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][5]

Docking

Progress M-25 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 13 November 1994 at 09:04:29 UTC, and was undocked on 16 February 1995 at 13:03:00 UTC.[3][4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 16 February 1995, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 16:06:00 UTC and the mission ended at 16:45 UTC.[3][4]

See also

• 1994 in spaceflight
• List of Progress missions
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

References

1. "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
2. "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
3. "Mir". Astronautix. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
4. "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-25"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
5. "Progress M-25". NASA. Retrieved 2 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.