The Progress MS-19 spacecraft – on its 80th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – docked early on Thursday. Progress MS-19, also known as Progress 80P, launched on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 15 at 9:25 am Baikonur time, or 11:25 pm Eastern time on February 14, before docking with the ISS two days later.
Progress MS-19 marks the 19th mission of the MS variant for the Progress cargo ship, the 3rd launch of a Soyuz rocket in 2022, and the first launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this year. This is also the first mission to the ISS of 2022.