Progress M-39
Progress M-39 () was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1998 to resupply the Mir space station. Launch Progress M-39 launched on 14 May 1998 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket. Docking Progress M-39 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 16 May 1998 at 23:50:33 UTC, and was undocked on 12 August 1998 at 09:28:52 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-28. Following the redocking of Soyuz TM-28 to the Mir Core Module forward port, Progress M-39 was redocked to the Kvant-1 aft port on 1 September 1998 at 05:34:40 UTC. Progress M-39 was finally undocked on 25 October 1998 at 23:03:24 UTC. Decay It remained in orbit until 29 October 1998, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 03:27:00 UTC, with the mission ending at 04:14:52 UTC. See also 1998 in spaceflight List of Progress missions List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir References Progress (spacecraft) missions 1998 in Kazakhstan Spacecraft launched in 1998 Spacecraft which reentered in 1998 Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-U rockets