Cargo spacecraft "Progress-M 28M"

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Mission Report:

• After the failed docking of Progress M-27M to the ISS station on April 28, the launch of Progress M-28M was moved from Aug 06 to July 03, 2015.
• Progress M-28M was launched successfuly on Jul 3, 2015 carrying critical supplies for the ISS. This launch used the older Soyuz-U rocket instead of the newer Soyuz-2-1a which ran into problems on the Progress M-27M launch.
• It docked with the Pirs module at 0711 UTC Jul 5.
• The Progress M-28M cargo ship undocked from Pirs at 0735 UTC Dec 19, 2015 and was deorbited over the South Pacific, with debris impact at 1128 UTC.