Progress-M (modified)

In-active Cargo Cargo Resupply Payload Capacity: 2350 kg Diameter: 2.72 m Height: 7.23 m

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Nov. 26, 2008

ISS Logistics, ISS Orbit Raising

Flight Life

6 Months docked to ISS

Description

Progress is derived from the manned Soyuz spacecraft and is launched on the same vehicle, a Soyuz rocket. The purpose of Progress is to deliver supplies needed to sustain human presence in orbit. Currently it is used as a re-supply spacecraft for the ISS.

History

The modified Progress-M is a uncrewed cargo spacecraft based on the Progress-M. In the new version, the Argon-16 computer is replaced by the new TsVM-101 computer. The latter is a much more capable computer, is almost 10 times lighter and much smaller. The analogue telemetry system is also replaced by a smaller digital telemetry system called MBITS.



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