Progress MS-13

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

09:34:11

Friday December 6, 2019

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Mission Details

Progress MS-13

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Progress MS-13 is a Soviet/Russian Progress cargo vehicle which docked to the ISS. It's the 165th Progress flight. Progress was the first cargo spacecraft to fly in space, and the first to bring freight back to Earth, thanks to a Raduga capsule. It's a cargo ship developed to supply the Salyut 6 space station and which was subsequently used successively to supply the crews staying on board the Salyut 7, Mir and from the International Space Station. It made its first flight in 1978 and was the first vessel of this type: it enabled the crews to stay in space by bringing consumables (food, water, fuel, oxygen) and spare parts. In 2018, it was used with other cargo vessels to supply the permanent crew of the International Space Station. The Progress spacecraft is largely derived from the Soyuz spacecraft intended for the transport of crews in low orbit. It is launched by a Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It has a mass of around 7 tonnes for a length of 7.9 meters and its carrying capacity is around 2.5 tonnes. It can transport both pressurized freight and gases, propellants and liquids but is not designed to bring freight back to Earth. Like the Soyuz spacecraft, it is equipped with a Kours automatic docking system. Several variants of the Progress spacecraft have been developed over the decades with increasing capabilities.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

7,200 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Soyuz 2.1a

Active Since 2004

RKK Energiya logo

Manufacturer

RKK Energiya

Price

$17.42 million

Rocket

Height: 51.38m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 7,500 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,550 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.11m

Height: 15.59m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 31/6

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

47 hr 9 min

Stats

Soyuz 2.1a


42nd

Mission

5th

Mission of 2019

2019


90th

Orbital launch attempt