Soyuz U - Progress M-29M Launch - October 1, 2015

Additional Information: http://bit.ly/1OaJuZ3 The Progress M-29M cargo spacecraft is en-route to the International Space Station, heading into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz U rocket on Thursday. Blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 16:49 UTC, Soyuz lit up the night skies as it began chasing the Space Station that had passed over the launch site just minutes before. Lofting the last in the line of Progress M-M spacecraft, Soyuz U thundered off under the power of its four boosters and core stage, embarking on a nine-minute ride into orbit. The boosters operated for two minutes, separating from the launcher that continued onward powered by the core stage alone which fired for nearly five minutes, departing the Soyuz in the traditional hot-staging sequence. Taking over for a burn of almost four minutes, the third stage successfully placed the spacecraft in its targeted Low Earth orbit from where the Progress can catch up with ISS.