Progress 42

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

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{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Progress 42

| image = Progress drawing.svg

| image_caption = A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft

| mission_type = Mir resupply

| COSPAR_ID = 1990-041A

| SATCAT = 20602{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt|title=Launchlog|work=Jonathan's Space Report|access-date=4 December 2020}}

| spacecraft = Progress (No.150)

| 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=4 December 2020}}

| manufacturer = NPO Energia

| launch_date = 5 May 1990, 20:44:01 UTC

| launch_rocket = Soyuz-U2

| launch_site = Baikonur, Site 1/5

| docking =

{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock

| docking_target = Mir

| docking_type = dock

| docking_port = Kvant-1 aft{{cite web|url=http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr42.sht|title=Cargo spacecraft "Progress 42"|work=Manned Astronautics figures and facts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009101322/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/pr42.sht|archive-date=9 October 2007}}

| docking_date = 7 May 1990, 22:45:03 UTC

| undocking_date = 27 May 1990, 07:08:58 UTC

}}

| disposal_type = Deorbited

| decay_date = 27 May 1990, 11:40:00 UTC

| orbit_epoch = 5 May 1990

| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Low Earth

| orbit_periapsis = 188 km

| orbit_apoapsis = 243 km

| orbit_inclination = 51.6°

| orbit_period = 88.8 minutes

| apsis = gee

| programme = Progress (spacecraft)

| previous_mission = Progress M-3

| next_mission = Progress M-4

}}

Progress 42 ({{Langx|ru|Прогресс 42|italic=yes}}) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1990 to resupply the Mir space station.