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PROGRESS 40
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Progress 40 was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1989 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 10, 1989 at 08:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 368 km
- Periapsis
- 354 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 91.76 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,957.38 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19783
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.5 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 5, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 5, 1989
- Time in service
- 23 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed