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Progress 26

A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft
Mission type Mir resupply
COSPAR ID 1986-032A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no. 16687[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Progress (No.136)
Spacecraft type Progress 7K-TG[2]
Manufacturer NPO Energia
Start of mission
Launch date 23 April 1986, 19:40:05 UTC[1]
Rocket Soyuz-U2[2]
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal Deorbited
Decay date 23 June 1986, 18:41:01 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee altitude 184 km[3]
Apogee altitude 257 km[3]
Inclination 51.6°[3]
Period 88.9 minutes[3]
Epoch 23 April 1986
Docking with Mir
Docking port Mir Core Module aft[3]
Docking date 26 April 1986, 21:26:06 UTC
Undocking date 22 June 1986, 18:25:00 UTC
Progress (spacecraft)← Progress 25Progress 27 →

Progress 26 (Russian: Прогресс 26) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in April 1986 to resupply the Mir space station.

Progress 26 launched on 23 April 1986 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4]

Progress 26 docked with the aft port of the Mir Core Module on 26 April 1986 at 21:26:06 UTC, and was undocked on 22 June 1986 at 18:25:00 UTC.[3][5]

It remained in orbit until 23 June 1986, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 18:41:01 UTC.[3][5]

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  2. ^ a b c "Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cargo spacecraft "Progress 26"". Manned Astronautics figures and facts. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Progress 26". NASA. Retrieved 5 December 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ a b "Mir". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2020.