Progress MS-06 approaches
the ISS on 16 June 2017.
|Mission type||ISS resupply|
|Mission duration||197 days|
|Spacecraft||Progress MS-06 s/n 436|
|Launch mass||7290 kg|
|Payload mass||2450 kg|
|Start of mission|
|Launch date||14 June 2017, 09:20:13 UTC |
|Rocket||Soyuz-2.1a s/n U15000-028|
|Launch site||Baikonur, Site 31/6|
|Contractor||Progress Rocket Space Centre|
|End of mission|
|Decay date||28 December 2017|
|Reference system||Geocentric orbit|
|Regime||Low Earth orbit|
|Docking with ISS|
|Docking date||16 June 2017, 11:37 UTC|
|Undocking date||28 December 2017,|
|Time docked||197 days|
Progress MS-06 (Russian: Прогресс МC-06), identified by NASA as Progress 67P, was a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). As of 2014, the launch of Progress MS-06 was planned for 22 February 2017.
Progress MS-06 docked with the Zvezda. It was planned to dock with the Pirs module which it would remove from the space station, in preparation for the arrival of the Nauka module. However, due to the repetitive delays with the Nauka module the plan was postponed to Progress MS-09. After a two-day rendezvous, Progress MS-06 docked to the station on 16 June 2017 at 11:37 UTC.
The Progress MS-06 spacecraft delivered 2,450 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station for the six-person crew. The following is a breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS:
On 27 August 2017, Progress MS-06's engines were used for a 177-second burn to raise the ISS by around 0.97 km (average orbital altitude).
The strap-on boosters ignited dry grass on impact 600 kilometers downrange from the Baikonur Cosmodrome causing a fire 15 km across. NPO Mashinostroyeniya employed workers to clear debris. One worker was killed and another hospitalized by the fires.