Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Progress M-53 identified by NASA as Progress 18 or 18P was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft with the serial number 353.Progress M-53 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 23:09:34 GMT on 16 June 2005. The spacecraft docked with the Aft port of the Zvezda module at 00:41:31 GMT on 19 June.