Progress 25

{{Short description|Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft}}

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{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Progress 25

| image = Progress drawing.svg

| image_caption = A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft

| mission_type = Mir resupply

| COSPAR_ID = 1986-023A

| SATCAT = 16645{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt|title=Launchlog|work=Jonathan's Space Report|access-date=5 December 2020}}

| spacecraft = Progress (No.134)

| spacecraft_type = Progress 7K-TG{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress.htm|title=Progress 1 - 42 (11F615A15, 7K-TG)|work=Gunter's Space Page|access-date=5 December 2020}}

| manufacturer = NPO Energia

| launch_date = 19 March 1986, 10:08:25 UTC

| launch_rocket = Soyuz-U2

| launch_site = Baikonur, Site 1/5

| docking =

{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock

| docking_target = Mir

| docking_type = dock

| docking_port = Mir Core Module aft{{cite web|url=http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr25.sht|title=Cargo spacecraft "Progress 25"|work=Manned Astronautics figures and facts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009095616/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr25.sht|archive-date=9 October 2007}}

| docking_date = 21 March 1986, 11:16:02 UTC

| undocking_date = 20 April 1986, 19:24:08 UTC

}}

| disposal_type = Deorbited

| decay_date = 21 April 1986, 00:00 UTC

| orbit_epoch = 19 March 1986

| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Low Earth

| orbit_periapsis = 183 km

| orbit_apoapsis = 251 km

| orbit_inclination = 51.7°

| orbit_period = 88.8 minutes

| apsis = gee

| programme = Progress (spacecraft)

| previous_mission = Kosmos 1669

| next_mission = Progress 26

}}

Progress 25 ({{Langx|ru|Прогресс 25|italic=yes}}) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in March 1986 to resupply the Mir space station.

Launch

Progress 25 launched on 19 March 1986 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1986-023A|title=Progress 25|work=NASA|access-date=5 December 2020}} {{PD-notice}}

Docking

Progress 25 docked with the aft port of the Mir Core Module on 21 March 1986 at 11:16:02 UTC, and was undocked on 20 April 1986 at 19:24:08 UTC.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820173204/http://www.astronautix.com/m/mir.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 August 2016|title=Mir|work=Astronautix|access-date=5 December 2020}}

Decay

It remained in orbit until 21 April 1986, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 00:00 UTC and the mission ended at 00:48:30 UTC.

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