Progress M-10M

Progress M-10M (Russian: Прогресс М-10М), identified by NASA as Progress 42P, is a Progress spacecraft which was launched on 27 April 2011 to resupply the International Space Station.[1][2] It was the tenth Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, and has the serial number 410. The spacecraft was manufactured by RKK Energia, and is operated by the Russian Federal Space Agency. On 29 April 2011, it arrived at the space station's Pirs Docking Compartment during Expedition 27.[3]

Progress M-10M
Progress M-10M approaches the
ISS on 29 April 2011.
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2011-017A
SATCAT no.37396
Mission duration185 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeProgress-M s/n 410
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date27 April 2011, 13:05:21 UTC
RocketSoyuz-U
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date29 October 2011, 13:00 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51.6°
Epoch27 April 2011
Docking with ISS
Docking portPirs nadir
Docking date29 April 2011, 14:29 UTC
Undocking date29 October 2011, 09:04 UTC
Time docked183 days
Cargo
Mass2645 kg
Pressurised1349 kg
Fuel879 kg
Gaseous50 kg
Water420 kg
Progress ISS Resupply
 

Launch

Progress M-10M lifted off from launch pad number 1 of the Baikonur cosmodrome at 13:05 UTC on 27 April 2011. Progress M-10M achieved the preliminary planned orbit after nine minutes of the launch. Onboard commands were issued to unfurl the spacecraft's communications and navigation antennas and extend two power-generating solar arrays. A series of engine firings over the next two days guided the spacecraft toward a linkup with the International Space Station (ISS).

Docking

Progress M-10M autonomously flew for two days after the launch and arrived at the ISS on 29 April 2011, successfully docking to the nadir port of the Pirs at 14:19 UTC.[4] The docking occurred as the two spacecraft were traveling 354 kilometres over western Mongolia. The linkup happened just over five hours before NASA's first launch attempt of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 mission. The shuttle launch was scrubbed because two heaters on one of Endeavour's auxiliary power units failed.

Cargo

Inventory

Total cargo mass delivered: 2645 kg

Item description [5]Mass (kg)
Propellant in the propulsion system tanks for the ISS needs250
Propellant in the refuelling system tanks627
Oxygen51
Water in the Rodnik system tanks420
Items in the cargo compartment1297
Gas supply system24
Water supply system20
Thermal control system14
On-board hardware control system12
Individual protection items62
Maintenance and repair equipment10
Sanitary and hygienic items118
Food containers, fresh products192
Medical equipment, linen, personal hygienic and prophylactics items94
Science experimental hardware, including experimental items141
Russian crew's items88
On-board documentation files, crew provisions, video- and photo-equipment22
FGB-hardware54
US Orbital Segment hardware444

Undocking and decay
Progress M-10M departs the ISS on 29 October 2011.

Progress M-10M undocked nominally at 09:04 UTC on 29 October 2011 from the nadir port of the Pirs Docking Compartment after hooks open command at 09:01 UTC. An automated 15 seconds separation burn followed at 09:07 UTC. The cargo ship, loaded with trash, performed its 3-minute deorbit burn at 12:10:30 UTC. It entered the Earth's atmosphere at 12:48 UTC and burned up at 12:54 UTC. Surviving debris impacted in the Pacific Ocean at around 13:00 UTC.

With the Progress M-10M undocking, the Space Station was in a very rare configuration of having only one Russian vehicle docked (Soyuz TMA-02M at Rassvet Module). The last time this situation occurred was in March 2009.

References
  1. Justin Ray (27 April 2011). "Space station resupply ship launched ahead of Endeavour". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. Peter Harding (27 April 2011). "Progress M-10M launches on cargo run to International Space Station". NASAspaceflight.com. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  3. Mu Xuequan (29 April 2011). "Russian Progress cargo ship docks with ISS". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  4. SPACE.com Staff (29 April 2011). "Russian Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station Ahead of Shuttle Launch". SPACE.com. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  5. Russian Federal Space Agency (29 April 2011). "Progress M-10M to Arrive at the ISS Today". Retrieved 30 April 2011.
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