PROGRESS-M 61

PROGRESS-M 61 is no longer on orbit
PROGRESS-M 61 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 32001

Int'l Code: 2007-033A

Launch date: August 2, 2007
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 2008-01-22

The Russian cargo craft Progress M-61, which blasted off from the Baikonur launch pad at 21:33, Moscow time, is expected to dock with the docking compartment Pirs of the ISS at 22:38, Moscow time, on August 5. The cargo craft is carrying 2.5 tons of foodstuffs, water, fuel, equipment for the International Space Station and presents from the Earth for the crew of Russian cosmonauts Fedor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson. The equipment includes six new computers for the Russian segment of the ISS, which failed in mid-June.