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PROGRESS 42
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Progress 42 was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1990 to resupply the Mir space station.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 5, 1990 at 08:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 394 km
- Periapsis
- 379 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 92.29 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-041A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20602
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.01 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 27, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 27, 1990
- Time in service
- 22 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed