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Progress M-31 (Russian: Прогресс M-31) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1996 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress M-31 launched on 5 May 1996 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.[2][5]

Docking

Progress M-31 docked with the forward port of the Mir Core Module on 7 May 1996 at 08:54:19 UTC, and was undocked on 1 August 1996 at 16:44:54 UTC.[3][4]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 1 August 1996, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 19:44:30 UTC and the mission ended at 20:33:03 UTC.[3][4]

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 c "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-31"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  5. ^ "Progress M-31". NASA. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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