Progress MS-11
Progress MS-11 (Russian: Прогресс МC-11), identified by NASA as Progress 72P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
![]() Progress MS-11 approaches the ISS. | |
Mission type | ISS resupply |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2019-019A |
SATCAT no. | 44110 |
Mission duration | 116 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Progress MS-11 n/s 441 |
Spacecraft type | Progress-MS |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7400 kg |
Payload mass | 3400 kg |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 4 April 2019, 11:01:34 UTC [1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a s/n Ya15000-036 |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/5 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 29 July 2019 |
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 | 4 April 2019 |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Pirs |
Docking date | 4 April 2019, 14:22:26 UTC [1] |
Undocking date | 29 July 2019, 10:43 UTC |
Time docked | 116 days |
Cargo | |
Mass | 3400 kg |
Pressurised | 1400 kg |
Fuel | 900 kg |
Gaseous | 47 kg |
Water | 420 kg |
Progress ISS Resupply |
Pre-launch
In 2014, the launch was scheduled for 16 April 2018. In November 2018, delays with the launch of the EgyptSat-A spacecraft and required the launch to 28 March 2019, the Kommersant newspaper reported. In January 2019, RIA Novosti reported that the launch had been pushed to 4 April 2019.[2]
Launch
Progress MS-11 launched on 4 April 2019, at 11:01:34 UTC [1] from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-2.1a rocket.[3]
Docking
Progress MS-11 docked with the docking port of the Pirs module just 3 hours and 22 minutes after the launch, at 14:22:26 UTC.[4]
Cargo
The Progress MS-11 spacecraft carried about 3400 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station, included 1400 kg of dry cargo, 900 kg of fuel, 420 kg of water in the Rodnik system and 47 kg of compressed air.[5]
Undocking and decay
It undocked at 10:43 UTC, on 29 July 2019. And decay in the atmosphere and its debris entered the Pacific Ocean, on the same day.
References
- Gebhardt, Chris (4 April 2019). "Progress MS-11 docks to the ISS; Station supplies in good shape". Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- http://www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-11.html
- NASA Office of Inspector General (June 28, 2016). NASA's Response to SpaceX's June 2015 Launch Failure: Impacts on Commercial Resupply of the International Space Station (PDF) (Report). NASA Office of Inspector General. p. 13. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - "Россия установила новый рекорд скорости доставки грузов на МКС" [Russia set new ISS supply delivery speed record] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- "Progress MS-11: Display 2019-019A". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.