Launched the Progress M-16M (48P) cargo craft to the ISS, notable as the first Progress resupply mission to test a fast 6-hour rendezvous profile instead of the standard roughly two-day approach.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.9 T
- Flight
- 699th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 2012, 19:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-042
- Launches in 2012
- 44th of 78
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