.jpg) Progress M-UM docking to ISS | |
| Names | Прогресс М-УМ |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Prichal module delivery |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2021-111A |
| SATCATno. | 49499 |
| Mission duration | 28 days and 15 hours |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Progress M-UM No. 303 |
| Spacecraft type | Progress-M (modified with hardware from Progress MS) |
| Manufacturer | Energia |
| Launch mass | 8,180 kg (18,030 lb) |
| Payload mass | 5,350 kg (11,790 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 24 November 2021, 13:06:35 (2021-11-24UTC13:06:35Z) UTC[1][2][3][4] |
| Rocket | Soyuz 2.1b |
| Launch site | Baikonur,Site 31/6 |
| Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 23 December 2021, 04:30:54 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.65° |
| Docking withISS | |
| Docking port | Nauka nadir |
| Docking date | 26 November 2021, 15:19 UTC |
| Undocking date | 22 December 2021, 23:03 UTC |
| Time docked | 26 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes (delivery craft) |
| Payload | |
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 Diagram of Progress M-UM spacecraft Progress ISS Resupply | |
| External image | |
|---|---|
 Prichal module / Progress M-UM launch mission logo |
Progress M-UM (Russian:Прогресс М-УМ), was a specially modifiedProgress M, Russian production No.303,[5] used to deliver thePrichal module to theRussian Orbital Segment (ROS) of theInternational Space Station (ISS). It was launched on 24 November 2021 at 13:06:35 UTC. The spacecraft consisted of a Progress M propulsion compartment, with the pressurized cargo section of the spacecraft removed to accommodatePrichal. This was the 171st flight of a Progress spacecraft.[2][6] It was the final flight of a Progress M and the first launch of a Progress spacecraft on a Soyuz 2.1b.[7]
On 15 January 2011, RKK Energia announced that its Scientific and Technical Council (NTS) had reviewed and approved the preliminary design of the Node Module and associated hardware, including a special version of the Progress cargo ship designated the Progress M-UM spacecraft module, intended for the delivery of the Node Module to the station. The space payload section for the Progress M-UM was dubbed KGCh. TheSoyuz-2 launch vehicle was adapted for the launch of the Progress M-UM spacecraft module, originally envisioned to take place in 2012, then 2019.[8] It was eventually signed for as completed in 2014 and kept in storage until processing and attachment withPrichal was started for launch in 2021. It is attached to thePrichal module by means of a newly developed transition compartment.
ThePrichal module was the second addition to the ROS in 2021. Earlier modules were delivered and added in a similar manner. Progress M-UM is similar in design toProgress DC-1 that deliveredPirs in 2001 andProgress M-MIM2 that deliveredPoisk in 2009, but with navigational systems and avionics hardware taken from theProgress MS variant.
ASoyuz-2.1b launched Progress M-UM to the International Space Station fromBaikonur Site 31/6 on 24 November 2021, at 13:06:40 UTC for delivery of the Prichal module.[1][2][4] Due to the larger diameter of thePrichal module, the Progress M-UM was launched in a 4.1 m (13 ft) wide ST-type fairing.
Two days after launch, Progress M-UM automatically dockedPrichal to the re-configurednadir (or Earth-facing) port of theNauka module after removal of the module's nadir docking adapter byProgress MS-17. Progress M-UM, was later undocked and deorbited after 28 days and 15 hours in space.
The ISS flight manifest drafted byRoscosmos at the end of summer 2020 set the launch of thePrichal module for 6 September 2021, with the docking toNauka's nadir port two days later.[2] However, on 1 December 2020, the launch ofPrichal slipped to three and four months after theNauka. The planned launch date was on 24 November 2021.[1]
One port onPrichal is equipped with an active hybrid docking port, which enables docking with theNauka module. The remaining five ports are passive hybrids, enabling docking of Soyuz and Progress vehicles, as well as heavier modules and future spacecraft with modified docking systems. Eight spacewalks will follow in 2022 to complete the integration of theNauka andPrichal modules into the Russian Orbital Segment.[1]
The Progress M-UM propulsion section remained docked at the station for 26 days. The propulsion section then undocked, revealingPrichal's nadir docking port for future Russian spacecraft.
The propulsion sectionre-entered theatmosphere of Earth for destruction over theSouth Pacific Ocean, on 23 December 2021, at 04:30:54.[6]
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Last flight of Progress-M.
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