Progress M-01M (russian: Прогресс М-01М, italic=yes), identified by
NASA
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as Progress 31P, was a
Progress
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spacecraft used to resupply the
International Space Station
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. It was the first flight of the
Progress-M
Progress-M (russian: Прогресс-М, GRAU indices 11F615A55 and 11F615A60), also known as Progress 7K-TGM, is a Russian, previously Soviet spacecraft which is used to resupply space stations. It is a variant of the Progress spacecraft, or ...
11F615A60, which featured a
TsVM-101 digital flight computer and
MBITS digital telemetry system,
in place of the earlier analogue systems. It was the first Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft, and had the serial number 401.
Launch
It was launched at 12:38 UTC on 26 November 2008 from
Site 1/5 at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
in
Kazakhstan
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, atop a
Soyuz-U
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carrier rocket. Following a four-day free flight, it docked with ''
Pirs'' module of the ISS at 12:28 UTC on 30 November 2008.
Antenna problem
Immediately after launch, an antenna used by the spacecraft's
Kurs
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docking system failed to deploy.
The antenna was successfully deployed about three hours later after flight controllers resent the deployment command,
however the spacecraft was docked using the backup
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system,
controlled by
cosmonaut
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Yury Lonchakov
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, as a precaution.
Docking
It remained docked until 6 February 2009, when it undocked at 04:10 UTC. It subsequently spent two days in free flight, before being deorbited, and burning up in the atmosphere at 08:19 UTC on 8 February 2009.
Cargo
Progress M-01M carried of cargo, consisting of which of fuel, of water, and of dry cargo. The dry cargo included
Japanese food
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for
Koichi Wakata
is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has ...
, who arrived aboard the station in March 2009 as part of
Expedition 18
Expedition 18 was the 18th permanent crew of the International Space Station (ISS).
The first two crew members, Michael Fincke, and Yuri Lonchakov were launched on 12 October 2008, aboard Soyuz TMA-13. With them was astronaut Sandra Magnus, who j ...
.
See also
*
List of Progress flights
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Organizations
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Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
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