Video: Launch of Soyuz rocket with Progress cargo ship

Watch the launch of the latest Progress module to take cargo to the ISS:

The unpiloted ISS Progress 54 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Feb. 5, bound for the International Space Station to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, supplies and experiment hardware for the Expedition 38 crew. The new Progress lifted off on time from Baikonur at 11:23 a.m. EST (10:23 p.m. Baikonur time), reaching its preliminary orbit less than nine minutes later. A series of carefully choreographed engine firings were planned to enable the resupply vehicle to reach the station just four orbits, or six hours later for a linkup to the Pirs Docking Compartment. The Pirs port was vacated on Feb. 3 with the undocking of the old ISS Progress 52 cargo ship that will be deorbited on Feb. 11 to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Some background info at Progress spacecraft blasts off on quick trip to space station – Spaceflight Now.

Update: And just six hours after its launch, the Progress makes its rendezvous with the station and docks with it: