Progress M-12 (russian: Прогресс М-12, italic=yes) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the
Mir space station.
The thirtieth of sixty four
Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used 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 ...
11F615A55 configuration,
and had the
serial number
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213.
It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the
EO-11 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.
Progress M-12 was launched at 21:29:25 GMT on 19 April 1992, atop a
Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying 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 ...
.
Following two days of free flight, it docked with the Forward port of the
core module of Mir at 23:21:59 GMT on 21 April.
During the 67 days for which Progress M-12 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around ,
inclined
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at 51.6 degrees.
Progress M-12 undocked from Mir at 21:34:44 GMT on 27 June, and was deorbited few hours later, to a destructive
reentry over the
Pacific Ocean at around 00:02:51 the next day.
See also
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1992 in spaceflight
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List of Progress flights
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List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir
References
Spacecraft launched in 1992
Progress (spacecraft) missions
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