ISS
NORAD ID: 38975
Int'l Code: 2012-060A
Launch date: October 31, 2012
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Decay date: 2013-04-21
Comments: PROGRESS M-17M carrying three tons of provisions for the International Space Station has intercepted the complex for docking just six hours after launch. Instead of performing the usual two day rendezvous profile however, PROGRESS M-17M instead performed an accelerated six hour (four orbit) rendezvous profile – the same type of maneuver that was successfully demonstrated on the Progress M-16M/48P mission in August.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for PROGRESS-M 17M
