Watch Russia launch 3 tons of cargo to the International Space Station today
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Russia will launch its latest Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station today (April 25), and you can follow the action live.
A Soyuz the rocket topped with the Progress 95 robotic cargo ship should take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 6:21 p.m. EDT (10:21 p.m. GMT; 3:21 a.m. April 26 local time).
You can watch it live here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA. Coverage will begin approximately 20 minutes before launch.
A Soyuz rocket launches the Progress 94 cargo spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 22, 2026. | Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
The Russian cargo ship, known as Progress 95, carries approximately 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).
It will dock with the orbiting laboratory on Monday, April 27 around 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT on Tuesday, April 28). You can also watch this arrival on Space.com.
Today’s launch will mark the start of the second Progress mission of the year. Progress 94 took off from Baikonur on March 22 and reached the ISS two days later, overcoming the deployment failure from one of its host antennas.
Progress 94 remains attached to the station. Progress 95 will dock at the port previously occupied by Progress 93, which left on April 20 to make way for the newcomer.
Progress 93 burned in Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, the fate that awaits all Progress ships once their missions are completed. That time will come for Progress 95 in about seven months.
Progress is one of four cargo spacecraft resupplying the ISS these days, along with Japan. HTV-XNorthrop Grumman’s Swan And EspaceXThe Dragon capsule from.
All are expendable except Dragon, which, like its astronaut-carrying counterpart, Crew Dragon, performs parachute-assisted ocean landings.
