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Progress M-12 (Russian: Прогресс М-12) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the Mir space station.[2] The thirtieth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[3] and had the serial number 213.[4] 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

Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1992-022A
SATCAT no.	21946
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M 11F615A55
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	7,250 kilograms (15,980 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	19 April 1992, 21:29:25 (1992-04-19UTC21:29:25Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U2
Launch site	Baikonur Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	27 June 1992, 00:02:51 (1992-06-27UTC00:02:52Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	371 kilometres (231 mi)[1]
Apogee altitude	415 kilometres (258 mi)[1]
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Core Forward
Docking date	21 April 1992, 23:21:59 UTC
Undocking date	27 June 1992, 21:34:44 UTC
Time docked	67 days

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.[4] 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.[5][6] During the 67 days for which Progress M-12 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around 371 by 415 kilometres (200 by 224 nmi), inclined at 51.6 degrees.[1] 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.[1][5]

See also

• 1992 in spaceflight
• List of Progress flights
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

References

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