Progress M-10M (russian: Прогресс М-10М, italic=yes), identified by

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as Progress 42P, is a

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spacecraft which was launched on 27 April 2011 to resupply the

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. It was the tenth

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11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, and has the serial number 410. The spacecraft was manufactured by

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, and is operated by the

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. On 29 April 2011, it arrived at the space station's Pirs Docking Compartment during

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Launch

Progress M-10M lifted off from launch pad number 1 of the Baikonur cosmodrome at 13:05 UTC on 27 April 2011. Progress M-10M achieved the preliminary planned orbit after nine minutes of the launch. Onboard commands were issued to unfurl the spacecraft's communications and navigation antennas and extend two power-generating solar arrays. A series of engine firings over the next two days guided the spacecraft toward a linkup with the International Space Station (ISS).

Docking

Progress M-10M autonomously flew for two days after the launch and arrived at the ISS on 29 April 2011, successfully docking to the nadir port of the '' Pirs'' at 14:19 UTC. The docking occurred as the two spacecraft were traveling 354 kilometres over western

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. The linkup happened just over five hours before NASA's first launch attempt of the

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mission. The shuttle launch was scrubbed because two heaters on one of Endeavour's auxiliary power units failed.

Cargo

Inventory

Total cargo mass delivered: 2645 kg

Undocking and decay

Progress M-10M undocked nominally at 09:04 UTC on 29 October 2011 from the nadir port of the Pirs Docking Compartment after hooks open command at 09:01 UTC. An automated 15 seconds separation burn followed at 09:07 UTC. The cargo ship, loaded with trash, performed its 3-minute deorbit burn at 12:10:30 UTC. It entered the Earth's atmosphere at 12:48 UTC and burned up at 12:54 UTC. Surviving debris impacted in the

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at around 13:00 UTC. With the Progress M-10M undocking, the Space Station was in a very rare configuration of having only one Russian vehicle docked ( Soyuz TMA-02M at Rassvet Module). The last time this situation occurred was in March 2009.

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