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Progress M-20

Progress M-20

A Progress-M spacecraft
Mission type	Mir resupply
COSPAR ID	1993-064A
SATCAT no.	22867[1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Progress (No.220)
Spacecraft type	Progress-M[2]
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	11 October 1993, 21:33:19 UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-U[2]
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	21 November 1993, 08:51 UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	191 km[4]
Apogee altitude	242 km[4]
Inclination	51.6°[4]
Period	88.5 minutes[4]
Epoch	11 October 1993
Docking with Mir
Docking port	Kvant-1 aft[4]
Docking date	13 October 1993, 23:24:46 UTC
Undocking date	21 November 1993, 02:38:43 UTC
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Progress M-20 (Russian: Прогресс M-20) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in 1993 to resupply the Mir space station.

Progress M-20 launched on 11 October 1993 from the Baikonur CosmodromeinKazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.^[2]

Progress M-20 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 13 October 1993 at 23:24:46 UTC, and was undocked on 21 November 1993 at 02:38:43 UTC.^[4][5]

It remained in orbit until 21 November 1993, when it was deorbited. The VBK-Raduga 10 capsule was jettisoned at 08:50 UTC, immediately before reentry. The mission ending occurred at 09:03 UTC, when the VBK-Raduga capsule landed across the Kazakh border from the Russian city of Orsk.^[3]

• 1993 in spaceflight
• List of Progress missions
• List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir

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