A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch towards the Worldwide House Station (ISS) this afternoon (July 3), and you may watch the motion stay.
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 92 freighter from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as we speak at 3:32 p.m. EDT (1932 GMT; 12:32 a.m. on July 4 native time in Kazakhstan).
NASA will stream the liftoff stay via NASA+ starting at 3:10 p.m. EDT (1910 GMT). House.com will simulcast the stream if the company makes it accessible.
Progress 92 will haul about three tons of meals, gas and different provides to the ISS. If all goes in keeping with plan, the robotic freighter will dock with the orbiting lab’s Poisk module on Saturday (July 5) at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT).
NASA will present a livestream of rendezvous and docking actions starting at 4:45 p.m. EDT (2045 GMT) on Saturday.
Progress 92 will take the place of the Progress 90 automobile, which undocked from the identical Poisk port on Tuesday (July 1) after a roughly seven-month keep. Progress 90 will expend in Earth’s atmosphere shortly — the identical destiny that awaits Progress 92 about six months from now.
Progress 91, which launched on Feb. 27, stays on the station, docked to its Zvezda service module.
Progress is considered one of three cargo ships that ferry provides to the ISS today. The opposite two are personal American automobiles: Northrup Grumman’s Cygnus and SpaceX’s Dragon.
Like Progress, Cygnus is designed for one-time use, ending its area stays with a fiery loss of life dive. However Dragon is reusable and might due to this fact haul scientific samples and different supplies from the ISS safely again right down to Earth.