Progress M-26
Russian cargo spacecraft
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Progress M-26 (Russian: Прогресс M-26) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1995 to resupply the Mir space station.
A Progress-M spacecraft | |
| Mission type | Mir resupply |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1995-005A |
| SATCAT no. | 23477[1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress (No.226) |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M[2] |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 15 February 1995, 16:48:28 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U[2] |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 15 March 1995, 06:15 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 188 km[4] |
| Apogee altitude | 224 km[4] |
| Inclination | 51.6°[4] |
| Period | 88.6 minutes[4] |
| Epoch | 15 February 1995 |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Kvant-1 aft[4] |
| Docking date | 17 February 1995, 18:21:34 UTC |
| Undocking date | 15 March 1995, 02:26:38 UTC |
Launch
Progress M-26 launched on 15 February 1995 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][5]
