Progress M-10M lifted off from launch pad number 1 of the Baikonur cosmodrome at 13:05 UTC on 27 April 2011. Progress M-10M achieved the preliminary planned orbit after nine minutes of the launch. Onboard commands were issued to unfurl the spacecraft's communications and navigation antennas and extend two power-generating solar arrays. A series of engine firings over the next two days guided the spacecraft toward a linkup with the International Space Station (ISS).
Docking
Progress M-10M autonomously flew for two days after the launch and arrived at the ISS on 29 April 2011, successfully docking to the nadir port of the Pirs at 14:19 UTC.[4] The docking occurred as the two spacecraft were traveling 354 kilometres over western Mongolia. The linkup happened just over five hours before NASA's first launch attempt of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 mission. The shuttle launch was scrubbed because two heaters on one of Endeavour's auxiliary power units failed.
Propellant in the propulsion system tanks for the ISS needs
250
Propellant in the refuelling system tanks
627
Oxygen
51
Water in the Rodnik system tanks
420
Items in the cargo compartment
1297
Gas supply system
24
Water supply system
20
Thermal control system
14
On-board hardware control system
12
Individual protection items
62
Maintenance and repair equipment
10
Sanitary and hygienic items
118
Food containers, fresh products
192
Medical equipment, linen, personal hygienic and prophylactics items
94
Science experimental hardware, including experimental items
141
Russian crew's items
88
On-board documentation files, crew provisions, video- and photo-equipment
22
FGB-hardware
54
US Orbital Segment hardware
444
Undocking and decay
Progress M-10M departs the ISS on 29 October 2011.
Progress M-10M undocked nominally at 09:04 UTC on 29 October 2011 from the nadir port of the Pirs Docking Compartment after hooks open command at 09:01 UTC. An automated 15 seconds separation burn followed at 09:07 UTC. The cargo ship, loaded with trash, performed its 3-minute deorbit burn at 12:10:30 UTC. It entered the Earth's atmosphere at 12:48 UTC and burned up at 12:54 UTC. Surviving debris impacted in the Pacific Ocean at around 13:00 UTC.
With the Progress M-10M undocking, the Space Station was in a very rare configuration of having only one Russian vehicle docked (Soyuz TMA-02M at Rassvet Module). The last time this situation occurred was in March 2009.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
