Progress M-20 (Russian: Прогресс M-20) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in 1993 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-20 launched on 11 October 1993 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2]

Docking

Progress M-20 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 13 October 1993 at 23:24:46 UTC, and was undocked on 21 November 1993 at 02:38:43 UTC.[4][5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 21 November 1993, when it was deorbited. The VBK-Raduga 10 capsule was jettisoned at 08:50 UTC, immediately before reentry. The mission ending occurred at 09:03 UTC, when the VBK-Raduga capsule landed across the Kazakh border from the Russian city of Orsk.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-20"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  5. ^ "Progress M-20". NASA. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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