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Type | Progress-M 11F615A55 |
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Organisation | Roskosmos |
Space station | ISS |
Station crew | Expedition 13 |
Contractors | RSC Energia |
Carrier Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur Site 1/5 |
Launch date | 24 April 2006 16:03:25 GMT |
Decay Date | 19 September 2006 04:14:40 GMT |
COSPAR ID | 2006-013A |
Free flight time | 2 days |
Docked time | 5 months |
Docking | |
Docking port | Zvezda Aft |
Docking date | 26 April 2006 17:41:31 GMT |
Undocking date | 19 September 2006 00:28:17 GMT |
Orbit | |
Regime | LEO |
Inclination | 51.6° |
Progress M-56, identified by NASA as Progress 21 or 21P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 356.[1]
Progress M-56 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 16:03:25 GMT on 24 April 2006.[1] The spacecraft docked with the Aft port of the Zvezda module at 17:41:31 GMT on 26 April.[2][3] It remained docked for five months before undocking at 00:28:17 GMT on 19 September 2006[2] to make way for Soyuz TMA-9.[4] It was deorbited at 03:28 GMT on 19 September 2006.[2] The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 04:14:40 GMT.[2][5]
Progress M-56 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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