On February 5, 2019 at 21:01 UTC the “Ariane-5” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 (HS- 4/SGS-1) and the Indian “GSAT-31” communication satellites.

On January 25, 2019 at 12:55 UTC the “Progress MS-09” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. At the same day, the spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 16:50 UTC.