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PROGRESS-M 3
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Progress M-3 was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1990 to resupply the Mir space station. The twentieth of sixty four Progress flights to visit Mir, it was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, and had the serial number 203. It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-6 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 28, 1990 at 11:10 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
- 400 km
- Periapsis
- 380 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 92.35 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20513
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 28, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 28, 1990
- Time in service
- 59 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed