Launched Soyuz TM-28, carrying cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Avdeyev plus researcher Yuri Baturin to Mir for the station's 26th long-duration expedition. The craft docked two days later on 15 August 1998.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 636th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 1998, 09:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-047
- Launches in 1998
- 49th of 82
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