The first flight of the upgraded Soyuz-FG rocket launched the Progress M1-7 cargo craft toward the ISS. A docking-ring seal left by the previous Progress vehicle initially blocked hard docking, requiring a December 3 spacewalk before the craft was secured.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 26 November 2001, 18:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2001-051
- Launches in 2001
- 52nd of 59
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