Progress M-SO1 was a modified
Progress spacecraft used to deliver
the
Pirs module to
the
International Space
Station. It was based on the
Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the
pressurised cargo module removed to accommodate
Pirs, and
had the
serial number 301.
Progress
M-SO1 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier
rocket from Site
1/5
at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
. Launch occurred at 23:34:55 GMT on 14
September 2001. The spacecraft docked with the Nadir port of the
Zvezda module at 01:05
GMT on 17 September. It remained docked for nine and a half days
before it was jettisonned from
Pirs at 15:36 GMT on 26
September.
It was deorbited at 23:30 GMT on the same
day, and burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean
, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at
around 00:01 GMT on 27 September.
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