A Roscosmos cargo spacecraft is set to launch from Kazakhstan, delivering essential supplies to the International Space Station.
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies is set to launch Sunday bound for the International Space Station, marking the latest in a long series of resupply missions keeping the orbiting laboratory stocked and its crew supported.
The unpiloted Progress 94 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 6:59 a.m. CDT aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a two-day voyage, the spacecraft will dock autonomously to the station’s Poisk module at 8:34 a.m. on Tuesday, requiring no crew intervention to complete the rendezvous.
Progress 94 will remain docked to the station for roughly six months, during which time the crew will unload its cargo and eventually reload it with trash for disposal. The spacecraft will end its mission with a destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The arrival comes just days after its predecessor, Progress 92, undocked on March 16 and completed that same fiery disposal process.
These routine but vital resupply runs are a cornerstone of continuous human presence aboard the station, which has been permanently crewed for more than 25 years. The research and discoveries made aboard the orbiting laboratory — impossible to replicate on Earth — continue to support NASA’s long-range ambitions, including Artemis lunar missions and an eventual crewed journey to Mars.
