CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2005-0149
PROGRESS-M 53
PROGRESS-M 53 (NORAD 28700) was deorbited in a controlled re-entry after a space station visit on 7 September 2005, after 2 months in orbit.
Controlled re-entryOfficial date
NORAD number
28700
International designator
2005-021A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
16 Jun 2005Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Sep 2005UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 months83 days
How it ended
Deorbited (controlled re-entry) after a station visit
Latitude range
51.6°N to 51.6°SFinal inclination 51.6°
Mass
7,260 kg
Operator
RKKE
Built by
TsSKB-Progress
Bus
7K-TGM
Programme
Progress M
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 51.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 51.6°N and 51.6°S.
Life in orbit
2 monthsPROGRESS-M 53’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2005-021
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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