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Progress 21
Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft. Progress 21 was launched on May 7, 1984 aboard a Soyuz-U from Baikonur. Latest status in GCAT: docked with another object (May 10, 1984).
COSPAR 1984-042ANORAD 14961Soviet Union
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Progress-21
- Common name
- Progress 21
- Payload designation
- Progress 7K-TG No. 116
- International designator
- 1984-042A
- NORAD catalog number
- 14961
- GCAT identifier
- S14961
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/108
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
- May 7, 1984 · 22:47 UTC
- Launch record
- 1984-042Success
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U
- Spaceport
- Baikonur · pad LC31
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 243 km
- Apogee
- 277 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Status
- Docked with another object
- Status date
- May 10, 1984
- Last known active
- May 26, 1984
- End of operations
- May 26, 1984
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 Q10639631 (CC0).