Roscosmos, the Russian owned space corporation, launched the Progress MS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station right on time from Site No. 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 04:45:06 UTC on 15 February (23:45:06 EST on 14 February).
Unlike most Russian missions to the Station, this flight did not make use of the fast track or super fast track launch-to-docking timeline and is instead performing a two day, 33 orbit rendezvous with the Station before docking on Wednesday, 17 February at approximately 06:26 UTC (01:26 EST) – albeit on manual control via Sergey Ryzhikov after the automated docking suffered an issue 20 meters out.