Progress 34
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1988-003A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.18795[1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.142)
Spacecraft typeProgress 7K-TG[2]
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date20 January 1988, 22:51:54 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U2[2]
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date4 March 1988, 06:45:00 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude329 km[3]
Apogee altitude347 km[3]
Inclination51.6°[3]
Period91.3 minutes[3]
Epoch20 January 1988
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date23 January 1988, 00:09:09 UTC
Undocking date4 March 1988, 03:40:09 UTC
 

Progress 34 (Russian: Прогресс 34) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in January 1988 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress 34 launched on 20 January 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]

Docking

Progress 34 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 23 January 1988 at 00:09:09 UTC, and was undocked on 4 March 1988 at 03:40:09 UTC.[3][5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 4 March 1988, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 06:45:00 UTC and the mission ended at 07:29:30 UTC.[3][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 34"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Progress 34". NASA. Retrieved 6 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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