Progress 39
Progress 39 (Russian: Прогресс 39) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1988 to resupply the Mir EO-4 expedition aboard the Mir space station. LaunchProgress 39 launched on 25 December 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket.[2][4] DockingProgress 39 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 27 December 1988 at 05:35:10 UTC, and was undocked on 7 February 1989 at 06:45:34 UTC.[3][5] DecayIt remained in orbit until 7 February 1989, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at around 12:49 UTC and the mission ended at 13:49 UTC.[3][5] See alsoReferences
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