The during the project AUSTROMIR used Austrian equipement for the scientific experiments on board of the space station
were fixed in the cargo cabin of the Soviet cargo transporter Progress M-9, and on 21th August 1991 at 00:54 CET
(03:54 local time) succesfully launched from Baikonur (Kazahstan) with help of a launch vehicle from the type Soyuz.
The cargo transporter Progress M-9 with the Austrian scientific payload on board docked two days later, on 23th August 1991
at 02:47 CET on the space station MIR. The equipment was partly brought out of the cargo transporter at the same day by the
both cosmonauts Anatoli Arzebarskij and Sergej Krikaljov to the space station and for the first time strated to run in
space succesful (equippment LOGION and MIGMAS-A).
| Cargo transporter Progress M-9 with the Austromir payload |
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MONOMIR container
MOTOMIR ergometer
OPTOVERT container
LOGION
MIGMAS-A
DATAMIR
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in a cargo container:
MONIMIR fabric cover 1,2
KYMO
PROTEINOMETER
VENE
AUDIMIR container
DATAMIR container
DATAMIR hard disk modules
DATAMIR spare parts
AREMIR |
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Payload configuration of the cargo transporter Progress M-9
| In the cargo cabin: |
Scientific equipment |
296,5 kg |
| Equipment for the retrofitting of the board systems |
159,5 kg |
| Equipment to control the gas composition |
129,5 kg |
| Eatables |
296,5 kg |
| Sanitary hygienic resource |
28,0 kg |
| Clothes, resources for the personal hygiene |
81,5 kg |
| Medical equipment |
25,5 kg |
| Euipment for the water supply system |
166,0 kg |
| Photo- and film equipment |
34,0 kg |
| Tool, additional equipment |
1,0 kg |
| Board documentation, Post |
27,0 kg |
| Return flight capsule |
370,0 kg |
| Total payload in the cargo cabin |
1615,0 kg |
| In the refuel cabin: |
Propellant |
182,0 kg |
| Oxidant |
337,0 kg |
| Oxygen |
--- kg |
| Air |
41,0 kg |
| Water in the system "RODNIK" |
295,0 kg |
| Total payload in the refuel cabin |
855,0 kg |
| Propellant for the space station |
260,0 kg |
| Total payload |
2730,0 kg |
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