Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Progress 3 was an unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1978 to resupply the Salyut 6 space station. It used the Progress 7K-TG configuration and was the third Progress mission to Salyut 6. It carried supplies for the EO-2 crew aboard Salyut 6 as well as equipment for conducting scientific research and fuel for adjusting the station’s orbit and performing manoeuvres.