Progress 40, an uncrewed Soyuz-U2 cargo freighter, resupplied the Mir space station with roughly 2,500 kg of food, oxygen, fuel and spare parts for the resident crew, docking 12 February 1989 and undocking 3 March before a destructive re-entry with waste.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9 T
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 10 February 1989, 08:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1989-008
- Launches in 1989
- 8th of 102
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