Roscosmos launched the third Progress cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for 2021. The flight, known as Progress MS-18, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from Site 31/6 at 00:00:32 UTC on Thursday, 28 October 2021.
Due to phasing requirements for the upcoming 31 October launch of the Crew-3 mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Progress MS-18 employed a two-day, 36 orbit rendezvous profile, arriving for docking at 01:31 UTC on Saturday, 30 October.