Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Progress M-12M (Russian: Прогресс М-12М) identified by NASA as Progress 44 or 44P was an unmanned Progress spacecraft that was lost in a launch failure in August 2011 at the start of a mission to resupply the International Space Station. It was the twelfth modernised Progress-M spacecraft to be launched. Manufactured by RKK Energia the spacecraft was to have been operated by the Russian Federal Space Agency.