It was launched at 12:38 UTC on 26 November 2008 from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz-U carrier rocket.

Following a four-day free flight, it docked with Pirs module of the ISS at 12:28 UTC on 30 November 2008.

Immediately after launch, an antenna used by the spacecraft's Kurs docking system failed to deploy.

It subsequently spent two days in free flight, before being deorbited, and burning up in the atmosphere at 08:19 UTC on 8 February 2009.

The dry cargo included Japanese food for Koichi Wakata, who arrived aboard the station in March 2009 as part of Expedition 18.