Progress M-6

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Template:Infobox spaceflight Progress M-6 (Template:Langx) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station.[1] The twenty-fourth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration,[2] and had the serial number 205.[3] It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-8 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres.

Progress M-6 was launched at 14:50:27 GMT on 14 January 1991, on a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[3] Following two days of free flight, it docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir at 16:35:25 GMT on 16 January.[4][5]

During the 58 days for which Progress M-6 was docked with it, Mir was in an orbit of around Script error: No such module "convert"., inclined at 51.6 degrees.[6] Progress M-6 undocked from Mir at 12:46:41 GMT on 15 March, and was deorbited a few hours later at 17:14:00.[4] It burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at around 18:07:26.[6][4]

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