[1] Progress M1-9 was launched by a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

[1] The spacecraft docked with the aft port of the Zvezda module at 17:00:54 UTC on 29 September 2002.

[2][3] It remained docked for 125 days before undocking at 16:00:54 GMT on 1 February 2003.

[2] to make way for Progress M-47[4] It was deorbited at 19:10:00 UTC on the same day,[2] burning up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean just six hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia had disintegrated over Texas.

[2][5] Progress M1-9 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research.