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Progress 2
Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft. Progress 2 was launched on July 7, 1978 aboard a Soyuz-U from Baikonur. Latest status in GCAT: docked with another object (Jul 9, 1978).
COSPAR 1978-070ANORAD 10979Soviet Union
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Progress-2
- Common name
- Progress 2
- Payload designation
- Progress 7K-TG No. 101
- International designator
- 1978-070A
- NORAD catalog number
- 10979
- GCAT identifier
- S10979
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/015
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Progress
- Owner
- NPO Energiya
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Builder
- NPO Energiya
- Platform (bus)
- 7K-TG
Launch
- Date
- July 7, 1978 · 11:26 UTC
- Launch record
- 1978-070Success
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U
- Spaceport
- Baikonur · pad LC31
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 327 km
- Apogee
- 330 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Status
- Docked with another object
- Status date
- July 9, 1978
- Last known active
- Aug 4, 1978
- End of operations
- Aug 4, 1978
Size
- Mass
- 7,250 kg
- Dry mass
- 4,800 kg
- Length
- 7.9 m
- Diameter
- 2.70 m
- Span
- 7.9 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q7248539 (CC0).