Progress M-41

Progress M-41 (Russian: Прогресс M-41) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1999 to resupply the Mir space station and carry the Sputnik 99 satellite.[5]

Progress M-41

A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1999-015A
SATCAT no.	25664[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.241)
Spacecraft type	Progress-M[2]
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	2 April 1999, 11:28:43 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U[2]
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	17 July 1999, 19:51 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	194 km[4]
Apogee altitude	249 km[4]
Inclination	51.6°[4]
Period	88.6 minutes[4]
Epoch	2 April 1999
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[4]
Docking date	4 April 1999, 12:46:50 UTC
Undocking date	17 July 1999, 11:24 UTC
Progress (spacecraft)

Launch

Progress M-41 launched on 2 April 1999 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][6]

Docking

Progress M-41 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 4 April 1999 at 12:46:50 UTC, and was undocked on 17 July 1999 at 11:24 UTC.[3][4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 17 July 1999, when it was deorbited. The mission ended at 19:51 UTC.[3][4]

See also

• 1999 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-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
3. "Mir". Astronautix. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
4. "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-41"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
5. "Sputnik 40, 41, 99 (RS 17, 18, 19)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
6. "Progress M-41". NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.