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Summary
(as of 31 December 2011)
From 1978 to 2011, 135 Russian cargoships were launched to resupply orbital
space stations. Launched regularly (almost four every year) for the last
33 years, these delivery missions were all successfull -- which represents
a fabulous achievement - until August 2011. Then Progress
M-11M was lost following rocket malfunction, but the services continued
two months later.
Starting in 2008, European and Japanese also launched cargoships (ATV and HTV respectively) toward the International Space Station - about once every two years. There were: |
• | 43 | Progress
(1st generation) |
each carrying some 1,340 kg of supplies and 975 kg of fuel (total: 2,315 kg of cargo); |
• | 67 | Progress M | each carrying some 1,340 kg of supplies and 1,200 kg of fuel (total: 2,540 kg of cargo); |
• | 11 | Progress M1 | each carrying a maximum of 2,230 kg of cargo (of which a maximum of 1,950 kg can be propellant and a maximum of 1,800 kg in supplies). |
• | 13 | Progress M-xxM | each carrying about 2,400 kg of cargo. |
• | 2 | ATV | carrying 8 tons of cargo. |
• | 2 | HTV | carrying 4,5 tons of cargo. |
These 114 Progress had carried some 275 tons of cargo (which represents nearly 1½ time the actual mass of ISS). |
• | 12 | Progress delivered 27½ tonnes of cargo to the Salyut 6 space station (all 1st generation Progress); |
• | 13 | Progress delivered 30 tonnes of cargo to the Salyut 7 space station (all 1st generation Progress); |
• | 64 | Progress delivered 157½ tonnes of cargo to the Mir orbital complex (18 were of 1st generation, 43 of M-type and 3 of M1-type); |
• | 48 | Progress delivered 58 tonnes of cargo to the ISS orbital complex (13 of M-type and 8 of M1-type); |
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