Progress M-61 (russian: Прогресс М-61, italic=yes), identified by NASA as Progress 26P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a

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 spacecraft, with the

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361.

Launch

Progress M-61 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket 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 ...

. Launch occurred at 17:33:47 UTC on 2 August 2007.

Docking

The spacecraft docked with the '' Pirs'' module at 18:40 UTC on 5 August 2007. It remained docked for almost 139 days before undocking at 03:59 UTC on 22 December 2007. Following undocking it conducted technological experiments and research as part of the Plazma-Progress programme for a month prior to being deorbited. It was deorbited at 19:06 UTC on 22 January 2008. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 19:51 UTC. Progress M-61 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.

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Launch

Docking

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