 |  Progress M-16M launches to test new fast rendezvous with ISS
 2 August 2012
Russia’s Progress M-16M spacecraft, also known as 48P, launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday for a test of a new rendezvous profile that will see the Progress dock with the ISS just six hours after launch. Launch was on schedule at 3:35 PM EDT/7:35 PM GMT atop the Soyuz-U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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