PROGRESS-M 02M

PROGRESS-M 02M is no longer on orbit
PROGRESS-M 02M is classified as:

NORAD ID: 34905

Int'l Code: 2009-024A

Launch date: May 7, 2009
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 2009-07-13

Progress M-02M, identified by NASA as Progress 33 or 33P, is a Progress spacecraft which will be used to resupply the International Space Station. It is the second Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft, and has the serial number 402. Progress M-02M was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket, flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch occurred at 18:37 GMT on 7 May 2009. Docking with the Pirs module of the ISS occurred at 07:24 UTC on 12 May. On 30 June it undocked from the Station to begin a series of scientific experiments. It is expected to rendezvous with the ISS on 12 July to test docking systems installed for the arrival of Mini-Research Module 2, before it is deorbited.