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Progress M-6 (Russian: Прогресс М-6) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station.[2] The twenty-fourth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[3] and had the serial number 205.[4] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-8 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.

Progress M-6

Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1991-002A
SATCAT no.	21053
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M 11F615A55
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	7,250 kilograms (15,980 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	14 January 1991, 14:50:27 (1991-01-14UTC14:50:27Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U2
Launch site	Baikonur Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	15 March 1991, 18:07:26 (1991-03-15UTC18:07:27Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	358 kilometres (222 mi)[1]
Apogee altitude	388 kilometres (241 mi)[1]
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 Aft
Docking date	16 January 1991, 16:35:25 UTC
Undocking date	15 March 1991, 12:46:41 UTC
Time docked	58 days

Progress M-6 was launched at 14:50:27 GMT on 14 January 1991, on 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 aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir at 16:35:25 GMT on 16 January.[5][6]

During the 58 days for which Progress M-6 was docked with it, Mir was in an orbit of around 358 by 388 kilometres (193 by 210 nmi), inclined at 51.6 degrees.[1] Progress M-6 undocked from Mir at 12:46:41 GMT on 15 March, and was deorbited a few hours later at 17:14:00.[5] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at around 18:07:26.[1][5]

See also

• 1991 in spaceflight
• List of Progress flights
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

References

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