Progress M-20M

Progress M-20M

Progress M-20M undocking from the Pirs docking module on 3 February 2014.
Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2013-039A
SATCAT no.	39219
Mission duration	199 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Progress-M s/n 420
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Launch mass	6950 kg
Start of mission
Launch date	27 July 2013, 20:45:08 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur, 31/6
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	11 February 2014, 15:55 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	413.0 km
Apogee altitude	418.0 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	92.88 minutes
Epoch	27 July 2013
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Pirs
Docking date	28 July 2013, 02:26 UTC
Undocking date	3 February 2014, 16:21 UTC
Time docked	190 days
Progress ISS Resupply

Progress M-20M (Russian: Прогресс М-20М), identified by NASA as Progress 52P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during 2013. Progress M-20M was built by RKK Energia. Progress M-20M was launched on a 6-hours rendezvous profile towards the ISS. The 20th Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft to be launched, it had the serial number 420 and was built by RKK Energia.

Launch

The spacecraft was launched on 27 July 2013 at 20:45 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch was the first out of Baikonur since a disastrous Proton-M failure on 2 July 2013.

Docking

Progress M-20M docked with the Pirs docking compartment on 28 July 2013 at 02:26 UTC, less than six hours after launch.

Cargo

Some last minute items were added to the Progress to assist the station astronauts with figuring out why the cooling system on one of the American spacesuits sprung a leak and caused a spacewalk to be aborted the previous week.

Undocking and reentry

Progress M-20M undocked from the ISS on 3 February 2014.