Progress MS-08
Progress MS-08 (Russian: Прогресс МC-08), identified by NASA as Progress 69P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
![]() Progress MS-08 approaches the ISS on 15 February 2018. | |
Mission type | ISS resupply |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2018-019A |
SATCAT no. | 43211 |
Mission duration | 197 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress MS-08 s/n 438 |
Spacecraft type | Progress-MS |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7430 kg |
Payload mass | 2494 kg |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 13 February 2018, 08:13:33 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a s/n U15000-030 |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/6 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 30 August 2018 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193.1 km |
Apogee altitude | 241.2 km |
Inclination | 51.67° |
Period | 88.55 minutes |
Epoch | 13 February 2018 |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zvezda |
Docking date | 15 February 2018, 10:38 UTC |
Undocking date | 23 August 2018, 02:16 UTC |
Time docked | 188 days |
Cargo | |
Mass | 2494 kg |
Pressurised | 1388 kg |
Fuel | 640 kg |
Gaseous | 46 kg |
Water | 420 kg |
Progress ISS Resupply |
Launch
Progress MS-08 launched on 13 February 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket, at 08:13:33 UTC.[1]
Docking
Progress MS-08 docked on 15 February 2018 with the aft docking port of the Zvezda module, at 10:38 UTC.[2]
Cargo
The Progress MS-08 spacecraft carried about 2494 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. Progress MS-08 also includes two nanosatellites: Tanyusha YuZGU-3 (1998-067PJ) and Tanyusha YuZGU-4 (1998-067PK) (a.k.a. Radioskaf RS-8 and Radioskaf RS-9) with a mass of 2.5 kg, which was developed jointly by RKK Energia and students at the South-Western State University, YuZGU, in the city of Kursk. The satellites will be launched by spacewalking cosmonauts.[3]
Undocking and decay
Undocking on 23 August 2018, at 02:16 UTC. And decay in the atmosphere and its debris entered the Pacific Ocean, on 30 August 2018.
References
- Chris Gebhardt, William Graham and Chris Bergin (13 February 2018). "Soyuz 2-1A launches at the second attempt with Progress MS-08". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Chris Gebhardt, William Graham and Chris Bergin (15 February 2018). "Progress MS-08 docks with ISS". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 15 February 2018.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- "Progress MS-08 arrives at ISS". russianspaceweb.com. russianspaceweb. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2020.