Progress M-37
{{Short description|Russian cargo spacecraft}}
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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name = Progress M-37
| image = Progress-M drawing.svg
| image_caption = A Progress-M spacecraft
| mission_type = Mir resupply
| COSPAR_ID = 1997-081A
| SATCAT = 25102{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt|title=Launchlog|work=Jonathan's Space Report|access-date=3 December 2020}}
| spacecraft = Progress (No.237)
| spacecraft_type = Progress-M{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress-m.htm|title=Progress-M 1 - 13, 15 - 37, 39 - 67 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)|work=Gunter's Space Page|access-date=3 December 2020}}
| manufacturer = RKK Energia
| launch_date = 20 December 1997, 08:45:02 UTC
| launch_rocket = Soyuz-U
| 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/prm36.sht|title=Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-37"|work=Manned Astronautics figures and facts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009095011/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm36.sht|archive-date=9 October 2007}}
| docking_date = 22 December 1997, 10:22:20 UTC
| undocking_date = 30 January 1998, 12:53 UTC
}}
{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock
| docking_target = Mir
| docking_type = dock
| docking_date = 23 February 1998, 10:22:20 UTC
| undocking_date = 15 March 1998, 19:16:01 UTC
}}
| disposal_type = Deorbited
| decay_date = 15 March 1998, 22:14:30 UTC
| orbit_epoch = 20 December 1997
| orbit_reference = Geocentric
| orbit_regime = Low Earth
| apsis = gee
| programme = Progress (spacecraft)
| previous_mission = Progress M-36
| next_mission = Progress M-38
}}
Progress M-37 ({{Langx|ru|Прогресс M-37|italic=yes}}) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1997 to resupply the Mir space station.
Launch
Progress M-37 launched on 20 December 1997 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It used a Soyuz-U rocket.{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-081A|title=Progress M-37|work=NASA|access-date=3 December 2020}} {{PD-notice}}
Docking
Progress M-37 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 22 December 1997 at 10:22:20 UTC, and was undocked on 30 January 1998 at 12:53 UTC, to make way for Soyuz TM-27.{{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=3 December 2020}} Following the redocking of Soyuz TM-27 to the forward port of the Mir Core Module, Progress M-37 was redocked to the Kvant-1 module on 23 February 1998 at 10:22:20 UTC, and finally undocked on 15 March 1998 at 19:16:01 UTC.
Decay
See also
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