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PROGRESS-M 17M
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Progress M-18M, identified by NASA as Progress 50P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station during 2013. Progress M-18M was sent on a four-orbit rendezvous profile that was already demonstrated by the Progress M-16M and Progress M-17M spacecraft in 2012.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 31, 2012 at 07:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 411 km
- Periapsis
- 355 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 92.21 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-060A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38975
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 13.0534 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 21, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 21, 2013
- Time in service
- 172 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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