Progress M-38

{{Short description|Russian cargo spacecraft}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2020}}

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{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Progress M-38

| image = Progress-M drawing.svg

| image_caption = A Progress-M spacecraft

| mission_type = Mir resupply

| COSPAR_ID = 1998-015A

| SATCAT = 25256{{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.240)

| spacecraft_type = Progress-M{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress-m-vdu.htm|title=Progress-M-VDU 14, 38 (11F615A55, 7KTGM)|work=Gunter's Space Page|access-date=3 December 2020}}

| manufacturer = RKK Energia

| launch_date = 14 March 1998, 22:45:55 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/prm38.sht|title=Cargo spacecraft "Progress M-38"|work=Manned Astronautics figures and facts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009101142/http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm38.sht|archive-date=9 October 2007}}

| docking_date = 17 March 1998, 00:31:17 UTC

| undocking_date = 15 May 1998, 18:43:54 UTC

}}

| disposal_type = Deorbited

| decay_date = 15 May 1998, 21:39:00 UTC

| orbit_epoch = 14 March 1998

| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Low Earth

| orbit_periapsis = 193 km

| orbit_apoapsis = 249 km

| orbit_inclination = 51.6°

| orbit_period = 88.6 minutes

| apsis = gee

| programme = Progress (spacecraft)

| previous_mission = Progress M-37

| next_mission = Progress M-39

}}

Progress M-38 ({{Langx|ru|Прогресс M-38|italic=yes}}) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in March 1998 to resupply the Mir space station.