A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch towards the Worldwide House Station (ISS) this afternoon (July 3), and you may watch the motion reside.
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 92 freighter from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan right this moment at 3:32 p.m. EDT (1932 GMT; 12:32 a.m. on July 4 native time in Kazakhstan).
NASA will stream the liftoff reside through NASA+ starting at 3:10 p.m. EDT (1910 GMT). House.com will simulcast the stream if the company makes it obtainable.
Progress 92 will haul about three tons of meals, gas and different provides to the ISS. If all goes in response to 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 car, which undocked from the identical Poisk port on Tuesday (July 1) after a roughly seven-month keep. Progress 90 will deplete in Earth’s environment 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 one in all three cargo ships that ferry provides to the ISS nowadays. The opposite two are non-public American automobiles: Northrup Grumman’s Cygnus and SpaceX’s Dragon.
Like Progress, Cygnus is designed for one-time use, ending its house stays with a fiery dying dive. However Dragon is reusable and may subsequently haul scientific samples and different supplies from the ISS safely again all the way down to Earth.
