Progress MS-05 Cargo Launch to ISS, Feb 2017, Kazakhstan

Russia will launch its next Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on February 22, 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.  Launch is at 12:58 am Eastern Standard Time (11:58 am local time at the launch site).   NASA TV coverage begins at 12:30 am EST.

If launch goes as scheduled, it will dock with the ISS on February 24 at 3:34 am ET.  NASA TV coverage begins at 2:45 am ET.

Russia designates this mission as Progress MS-05.   NASA refers to it as Progress 66 because it is the 66th Progress mission to the ISS.  It will carry 3 metric tons of food, fuel and supplies to the ISS.

This is the first Progress launch since the launch failure of Progress MS-04 in December 2016.