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Type | Progress-M 11F615A55 |
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Organisation | Roskosmos |
Space station | ISS |
Station crew | Expedition 12 Expedition 13 |
Contractors | RSC Energia |
Carrier Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur Site 1/5 |
Launch date | 21 December 2005 18:38:20 GMT |
Decay Date | 19 June 2006 17:53:14 GMT |
COSPAR ID | 2005-047A |
Free flight time | 2 days |
Docked time | 6 months |
Docking | |
Docking port | Pirs |
Docking date | 23 December 2005 19:46:18 GMT |
Undocking date | 19 June 2006 14:06:01 GMT |
Orbit | |
Regime | LEO |
Inclination | 51.6° |
Progress M-55, identified by NASA as Progress 20 or 20P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 355.[1]
Progress M-55 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 18:38:20 GMT on 21 December 2005.[1] The spacecraft docked with the Pirs module at 19:46:18 GMT on 23 December.[2][3] It remained docked for almost six months before undocking at 14:06:01 GMT on 19 June 2006[2] to make way for Progress M-57.[4] It was deorbited at 17:06:01 GMT on 19 June 2006.[2] The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 17:53:14 GMT.[2][5]
Progress M-55 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.
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