Launched the uncrewed Progress M-51 cargo ship (ISS resupply flight 16P) from Baikonur, docking with the Zvezda module's aft port two days later to resupply the International Space Station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 663rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 2004, 22:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2004-051
- Launches in 2004
- 52nd of 54
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