Progress M-20M

Progress M-20M

Progress M-20M undocking from the Pirs docking module on 3 February 2014.
Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2013-039A
SATCAT no.	39219
Mission duration	199 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M s/n 420
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Launch mass	6950 kg
Start of mission
Launch date	27 July 2013, 20:45:08 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur, 31/6
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	11 February 2014, 15:55 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric[2]
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	413.0 km
Apogee altitude	418.0 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	92.88 minutes
Epoch	27 July 2013
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Pirs
Docking date	28 July 2013, 02:26 UTC
Undocking date	3 February 2014, 16:21 UTC
Time docked	190 days
Progress ISS Resupply

Progress M-20M (Russian: Прогресс М-20М), identified by NASA as Progress 52P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2013.^[3] Progress M-20M was built by RKK Energia. Progress M-20M was launched on a 6-hours rendezvous profile towards the ISS. The 20th Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, it had the serial number 420 and was built by RKK Energia.

Launch

The spacecraft was launched on 27 July 2013 at 20:45 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.^[4] The launch was the first out of Baikonur since a disastrous Proton-M failure on 2 July 2013.

Docking

Progress M-20M docked with the Pirs docking compartment on 28 July 2013 at 02:26 UTC, less than six hours after launch.^[5]

Cargo

Some last minute items were added to the Progress to assist the station astronauts with figuring out why the cooling system on one of the American spacesuits sprung a leak and caused a spacewalk to be aborted the previous week.

Undocking and reentry

Progress M-20M undocked from the ISS on 3 February 2014.

References

1. McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
2. McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
3. Pete Harding (27 July 2013). "Progress M-20M arrives at ISS with spacesuit repair tools".
4. "Cargo freighter takes four-orbit sprint to space station". Spaceflight Now. 27 July 2013.
5. Megan Gannon (27 July 2013). "Russian Spacecraft Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit to International Space Station". Space.com.