The three crew members from three nations lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the early hours of Thursday, July 7, on a two-day rendezvous profile to the Station, the report says.
After two days, Soyuz MS-01 is scheduled to arrive underneath the ISS and navigate toward the nadir port of the Rassvet module.
If all goes to planned, Soyuz will dock to the ISS at 00:12 EDT on July 9, followed by hatch opening between MS-01 and the ISS at 02:50 EDT.
Assuming a proper mission, Soyuz MS-01 will remain docked to the Station until at least November 2016 for a roughly four month stay at the orbiting laboratory.
Launch of the Soyuz MS-01 mission marked the 130th flight of a Soyuz vehicle since they entered service in 1967 and is also serving as the introduction of a new variant Soyuz.
The MS variant is the last in a series of planned upgrades for the veteran Soyuz vehicle of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
