Progress 32 (Russian: Прогресс 32) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in September 1987 to resupply the Mir space station.

Progress 32
A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission typeMir resupply
COSPAR ID1987-082A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.18376[1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress (No.139)
Spacecraft typeProgress 7K-TG[2]
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date23 September 1987, 23:43:54 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U2[2]
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date19 November 1987, 00:10:00 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude295 km[3]
Apogee altitude355 km[3]
Inclination51.6°[3]
Period91.0 minutes[3]
Epoch23 September 1987
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date26 September 1987, 01:08:15 UTC
Undocking date10 November 1987, 04:09:10 UTC
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1 aft[3]
Docking date10 November 1987, 05:47:25 UTC
Undocking date17 November 1987, 19:24:37 UTC

Launch

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Progress 32 launched on 23 September 1987 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]

Docking

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Progress 32 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 26 September 1987 at 01:08:15 UTC, and was undocked on 10 November 1987 at 04:09:10 UTC. The vehicle was redocked at 05:47:25 UTC the same day and finally undocked on 17 November 1987 at 19:24:37 UTC.[3][5]

Decay

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It remained in orbit until 19 November 1987, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 00:10:00 UTC and the mission ended at 00:58 UTC.[3][5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 32"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Progress 32". NASA. Retrieved 6 December 2020.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2020.