ISS-11 The hatch of the Progress 18 resupply craft

This is a list of missions conducted by

Progress Progress is movement towards a perceived refined, improved, or otherwise desired state. It is central to the philosophy of progressivism, which interprets progress as the set of advancements in technology, science, and social organization effic ...

automated spacecraft. Progress is an uncrewed

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

n (previously

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

)

cargo spacecraft Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input, such as remote control, or remote guidance. They may also be autonomous, in which the ...

which has been used since 1978 to deliver supplies to Soviet space stations

Salyut 6 Salyut 6 () was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth station of the Salyut programme, and alternatively known DOS-5 as it was the fifth of the Durable Orbital Station series of civilian space stations. It was launched on 29 September 19 ...

Salyut 7 Salyut 7 (), also known as DOS-6 (Durable Orbital Station 6) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first crewed in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Va ...

Mir ''Mir'' (, ; ) was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russia, Russian Federation. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to ...

, and later to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...

. All launches have occurred from the

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian Human spaceflight, crewed spaceflights are l ...

. More than 178 flights have been launched, all except

Progress M-12M Progress M-12M (), identified by NASA as Progress 44P, was an uncrewed Progress (spacecraft), Progress spacecraft that was lost in a launch failure on 24 August 2011, at the start of a mission to resupply the International Space Station. It was ...

, Progress M-27M and Progress MS-04/65P have reached their destinations, with no injuries or loss of life after launch; Progress M-12M and MS-04 failed during launch, whereas Progress M-27M experienced a spacecraft loss of attitude control while in orbit. The Progress M-24 spacecraft collided with

during a failed docking attempt in 1994, and Progress M-34 caused serious damage to the

Spektr Spektr (; ) (TKM-O, 77KSO, 11F77O) was the fifth module of the Mir Space Station. The module was designed for remote observation of Earth's environment and contained atmospheric and surface research equipment. Spektr also had four solar arra ...

module when it drifted off course during a docking test in 1997. The spacecraft uses the automatic

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docking system for rendezvous with its destination space station, where crew are used in supervisory roles, only intervening using the manual

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system when problems occur. Five variants of the Progress spacecraft have been flown so far:

Progress 7K-TG Progress 7K-TG (, GRAU index 11F615A15), was a Soviet uncrewed spacecraft used to resupply space stations in low Earth orbit. Forty three flew, delivering cargo to Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and Mir. It was the first version of the Progress spacecraft ...

(1978–1990), Progress-M 11F615A55 (1989–2009), Progress-M1 (2000–2004), Progress-М 11F615A60 (2008–2015) and Progress-MS (since 2015). In addition, three custom

Progress M Progress-M (, GRAU index, GRAU indices 11F615A55 and 11F615A60), also known as Progress 7K-TGM, is a Russian, previously Soviet Union, Soviet spacecraft which is used to resupply space stations. It is a variant of the Progress (spacecraft), Pro ...

variants were launched to deliver ISS modules '' Pirs'' in 2001, '' Poisk'' in 2009 and

Prichal ''Prichal'' (), also known as the Uzlovoy Module (UM, ) is a Russian-built component of the International Space Station (ISS). This spherical module has six docking ports (forward, aft, port, starboard, zenith, and nadir) to provide additiona ...

in late 2021.

Flights

Flights to Salyut 6

All Progress spacecraft traveling to Salyut 6 were launched by the

Soyuz-U Soyuz-U ( GRAU index: 11A511U) was a Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress factory in Samara, Russia. The ''U'' designation stands for ''unified' ...

, and dockings were to the rear port of the station. Progress 7 deployed the KRT-10 astronomy satellite.

Flights to Salyut 7

Kosmos 1669 Kosmos 1669 () was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the Salyut 7 space station. It was a Progress 7K-TG spacecraft with the serial number 126. Mission Kosmos-1669 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Co ...

is the only Progress spacecraft to have received a Kosmos designation, which is usually reserved for the military, experimental and failed spacecraft. Veteran enthusiast Robert Christy suggests this may have been an error due to confusion with a

TKS spacecraft The TKS spacecraft (, , ''Transport Supply Spacecraft'', GRAU index 11F72) was a Soviet spacecraft conceived in the late 1960s for resupply flights to the military Almaz space station. The spacecraft was designed for both crewed and autonomous ...

which later became Kosmos 1686. Astronautix.com suggests that the spacecraft may have gone out of control shortly after launch, but then been recovered after the Kosmos designation had been applied. Alternatively, it could have been given the designation as it was used to test modifications that would be used on future Progress missions. Some news agencies reported that it was a free-flying Progress-derived spacecraft, or that it was a new type of spacecraft derived from the Progress.

Flights to Mir

The small capsule called Raduga was used for recovery of materials from the Mir station.

Flights to ISS

Currently, resupply missions often use the Russian Progress spacecraft. As of 2020, Progress spacecraft have flown most of the uncrewed missions to the ISS.

Missions

Current spaceflights

This is a list of current spaceflights to the International Space Station.

References

External links

Russian Launch Manifest dated 23 July 2014
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