Progress 23

Progress 23
Mission type	Salyut 7 resupply
COSPAR ID	1984-086A
SATCAT no.	15193
Mission duration	13 days and 19 hours
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.124)
Spacecraft type	Progress 7K-TG
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	14 August 1984, 06:28:15 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	28 August 1984, 01:28 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	186 km
Apogee altitude	250 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	88.9 minutes
Epoch	14 August 1984
Docking with Salyut 7
Docking port	Aft
Docking date	16 August 1984, 08:11 UTC
Undocking date	26 August 1984, 16:13 UTC
Time docked	10 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes
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Progress 23 (Russian: Прогресс 23) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in August 1984 to resupply the Salyut 7 space station.

Launch

Progress 23 launched on 14 August 1984 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.^[2]^[4]

Docking

Progress 23 docked with the aft port of Salyut 7 on 16 August 1984 at 08:11 UTC, and was undocked on 26 August 1984 at 16:13 UTC.^[3]^[5]

Decay

It remained in orbit until 28 August 1984, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 01:28 UTC, with the mission ending at around 02:15 UTC.^[3]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Launchlog". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 23"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007.
^ "Progress 23". NASA. Retrieved 5 December 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ ^a ^b "Salyut 7". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2020.