A Soyuz-U launched the Progress M-48 cargo freighter toward the International Space Station from Baikonur, delivering food, fuel, and supplies; it docked with the Zvezda module two days later and remained attached until being deorbited with station trash the following January.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T
- Flight
- 659th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 2003, 01:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2003-039
- Launches in 2003
- 39th of 63
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