Progress 40 launched an uncrewed Soviet resupply run to the Mir space station, docking with the Kvant-1 module on 12 February 1989 with roughly 2,500 kg of propellant, food, and equipment for the resident EO-4 crew before undocking and deorbiting in early March.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 531st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 10 February 1989, 16:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-010
- Launches in 1989
- 10th of 102
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