PROGRESS-M 27M

PROGRESS-M 27M is no longer on orbit
PROGRESS-M 27M is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40619

Int'l Code: 2015-024A

Launch date: April 28, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 2015-05-08

PROGRESS-M 27M (PROGRESS 59) is a Russian ressuply station headed to the International Space Station. Carrying more than 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies, the unpiloted ISS Progress 59 cargo craft launched at 3:09 a.m. EDT (1:09 p.m. local time in Baikonur) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However, Russian flight controllers initially could not confirm the health of the spacecraft's systems and deployment of Kurs rendezvous and other navigational antennas. They selected the backup rendezvous plan with a targeted arrival Thursday for the cargo ship and its supplies for the space station crew. The Progress spacecraft is in a safe preliminary orbit. As Progress passed over Russian ground stations, the Russian flight control team issued commands through the telemetry system onboard the spacecraft in an attempt to receive confirmation that navigation and rendezvous systems had deployed. But, due to sporadic telemetry from Progress 59, inconclusive data, and trouble uplinking commands to the spacecraft, controllers were unable to confirm the status of the systems.