Launched the Progress M-53 cargo spacecraft from Baikonur to resupply the ISS, docking with the Zvezda module's aft port on June 19 using the backup TORU system after a ground control station lost power.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 665th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 2005, 23:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2005-021
- Launches in 2005
- 22nd of 56
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