Progress DC-1

{{Short description|Modified Progress spacecraft used to deliver the Pirs module to the ISS}}

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{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Progress DC-1

| image = Progress M-SO1.jpg

| image_caption = Progress DC-1 approaching the ISS with Pirs.

| mission_type = ISS assembly

| operator = Roscosmos

| COSPAR_ID = 2001-041A

| SATCAT = 26908

| mission_duration = 13 days

| spacecraft_type = Progress-M (modified) s/n 301

| manufacturer = RKK Energia

| dry_mass =

| launch_mass = 6900 kg

| launch_date = 14 September 2001,
23:34:55 UTC

| launch_rocket = Soyuz-U

| launch_site = Baikonur, Site 1/5

| disposal_type = Deorbited

| decay_date = 27 September 2001, 00:01 UTC

| orbit_epoch = 14 September 2001

| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Low Earth

| orbit_periapsis = 388.2 km

| orbit_apoapsis = 393.6 km

| orbit_inclination = 51.6°

| orbit_period = 92.3 minutes

| apsis = gee

| docking =

{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock

| docking_target = ISS

| docking_type = dock

| docking_port = Zvezda nadir (Pirs)

| docking_date = 17 September 2001, 01:05 UTC

| undocking_date = 26 September 2001, 15:36 UTC

| time_docked = 9 days

}}

| cargo_mass = 3580 kg

| payload_items = Pirs

| programme = Progress ISS assembly

| previous_mission = Progress M-45

| next_mission = Progress M1-7

}}

Progress DC-1 (Originally designated Progress SO1) was a modified Progress 11F615A55, Russian production No. 301, used to deliver the Pirs module to the International Space Station.{{cite web |url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/progress.html|title=Progress cargo ship|last=Zak|first=Anatoly|publisher=RussianSpaceWeb|access-date=2009-06-07}} It has the pressurised cargo module removed to accommodate Pirs.{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt|title=Launch Log |last=McDowell|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan McDowell|publisher=Jonathan's Space Page|access-date=2009-06-07}}

Launch

Progress DC-1 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 23:34:55 UTC on 14 September 2001.

Docking

The spacecraft docked with the nadir port of the Zvezda module at 01:05 UTC on 17 September 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/prossmso.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020612063511/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/prossmso.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 June 2002 |title=Progress DC-1|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=2009-06-07}} It remained docked for nine days.

Undocking and Decay

On 26 September 2001 at 15:36 UTC it was jettisoned from Pirs. It was deorbited at 23:30 UTC on the same day, and burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 00:01 UTC on 27 September 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt|title=Satellite Catalog|last=McDowell|first=Jonathan|publisher=Jonathan's Space Page|access-date=2009-06-07}}

See also

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