Progress M-3

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox spaceflight Progress M-3 (Template:Langx) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1990 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The twentieth of sixty four Progress flights to visit Mir, it was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, and had the serial number 203.[2] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-6 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.

Progress M-3 was launched at 23:10:57 GMT on 28 February 1990, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[2] It docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module at 01:04:32 GMT on 3 March.[3][4] During the 56 days for which it was docked with Mir, the station was in an orbit of around Script error: No such module "convert"., with 51.6 degrees of inclination.[5]

Progress M-3 undocked at 20:24:43 GMT on 27 April[3] to make way for Progress 42. It was deorbited at 00:00:00 GMT the next day.[3] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 00:52 GMT.[5][3]

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