Editing Progress (spacecraft) (section)

== Current status ==
Progress spacecraft are used to resupply the [[International Space Station]] (ISS) as of 2021. Between 1 February 2003 and 26 July 2005, they were the only spacecraft available to transport large quantities of supplies to the station, as the [[Space Shuttle]] fleet was grounded after the breakup of ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'' at the end of [[STS-107]]. For ISS missions, the Progress M1 variant is used, which moves the water tanks from the propellant and refueling module to the pressurized section, and as a result is able to carry more propellant. [[Progress M-UM]], the final flight of a Progress-M spacecraft, was launched 24 November 2021 on a [[Soyuz 2.1b]]. As of 7/1/2021, there have been 170 Progress flights to the ISS.

On 9 July 2018, [[Progress MS-09]] broke a previous record by reaching the ISS in 3 hours and 48 minutes, carrying about {{cvt|2450|kg}} of cargo and supplies. It delivered food, fuel and supplies, including 705 kg of propellant, {{cvt|50|kg}} of oxygen and air, {{cvt|420|kg}} of water.

The [[European Space Agency]] (ESA) operated its own type of robotic supply freighter, the [[Automated Transfer Vehicle]] (ATV). The first of these, named [[Jules Verne ATV|''Jules Verne'']], was launched at 04:03 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] on 9 March 2008. ATVs can carry up to 8.85 [[tonne]]s of cargo into space, roughly three times as much as the Progress, and were launched annually by [[Ariane 5]] rockets from 2011-2014 as part of ESA contribution to ISS upkeep. The design is adopted as the [[European Service Module|Service Module]] of the [[Orion (spacecraft)|Orion spacecraft]].

[[NASA]]'s planned [[Orion spacecraft]] was initially designed to have an uncrewed variant of the Crew module similar to Progress; however, this capability was removed in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/07/constellation-top-risks-orion-loses-unmanned-capability/|title=Constellation battle numerous Top Risks – Orion loses unmanned capability|date=4 July 2009 |author=Chris Bergin|publisher=NASASpaceFlight.com|access-date=29 March 2013}}</ref> As of 2023, SpaceX's [[SpaceX Dragon 2|Dragon spacecraft]] and Northrop Grumman's [[Cygnus (spacecraft)|Cygnus spacecraft]] handle American logistics to the International Space Station.

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File:Progress M-11M spacecraft launches 2 cropped.jpg|Launch of Progress M-11M
File:Unity-Zarya-Zvezda STS-106.jpg|The [[Progress M1-3]] seen docked at the bottom of the [[Zvezda (ISS module)|''Zvezda'']] module of the ISS during [[STS-106]].
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