Progress M-30 | |
Mission Type: | Mir resupply |
Cospar Id: | 1995-070A |
Satcat: | 23744[1] |
Spacecraft: | Progress (No.230) |
Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M[2] |
Manufacturer: | RKK Energia |
Launch Date: | 18 December 1995, 14:31:35 UTC |
Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U |
Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Docking: | |
Disposal Type: | Deorbited |
Decay Date: | 22 February 1996, 11:02:36 UTC[4] |
Orbit Epoch: | 18 December 1995 |
Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
Orbit Periapsis: | 194 km |
Orbit Apoapsis: | 316 km |
Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
Orbit Period: | 89.6 minutes |
Apsis: | gee |
Programme: | Progress (spacecraft) |
Previous Mission: | Progress M-29 |
Next Mission: | Progress M-31 |
Progress M-30 was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress M-30 launched on 8 December 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[5]
Progress M-30 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 20 December 1995 at 16:10:15 UTC, and was undocked on 22 February 1996 at 07:24:00 UTC.
It remained in orbit until 22 February 1996, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 11:02:36 UTC.