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PROGRESS-M 17
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Progress M-34 was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attempt, resulting in significant damage to the space station.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 31, 1993 at 03:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U2 →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 156 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.83 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-019A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22588
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 17.0191 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 3, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 3, 1994
- Time in service
- 337 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed