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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
- August 20, 1991 at 10:54 PM 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
- 404 km
- Periapsis
- 393 km
- Inclination
- 51.59°
- Orbital period
- 92.53 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21662
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 19.68 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 30, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 30, 1991
- Time in service
- 41 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed