The Russian freighter, known as Progress<\/a> 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS).<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \n A Russian Soyuz rocket launches the Progress 95 cargo ship toward the International Space Station on April 25, 2026. (Image credit: Roscosmos\/NASA)<\/p>\n Progress 95 will dock with the orbiting lab on Monday (April 27) at about 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT on Tuesday, April 28). You can watch that arrival here at Space.com.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today’s launch kicked off the second Progress mission of the year. Progress 94 lifted off from Baikonur on March 22 and reached the ISS two days later, overcoming the failed deployment<\/a> of one of its docking antennas.<\/p>\n Progress 94 remains attached to the station. Progress 95 will dock to the port previously occupied by Progress 93, which departed on April 20 to make room for the newcomer.<\/p>\n Progress 93 burned up in Earth’s atmosphere<\/a> over the Pacific Ocean, the fate that awaits all Progress craft when their missions are over. That time will come for Progress 95 about seven months from now.<\/p>\n Progress is one of four cargo spacecraft that resupply the ISS these days, along with Japan’s HTV-X<\/a>, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus<\/a> and SpaceX<\/a>‘s Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n All are expendable except Dragon, which \u2014 like its astronaut-carrying counterpart, Crew Dragon \u2014 makes parachute-aided ocean splashdowns.<\/p>\n Editor’s note: This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. ET on April 25 with news of successful liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched its latest Progress cargo ship toward the International Space Station today (April 25). A Soyuz rocket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-628877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b6S5afBET4A7tYhb8iLZ9a.jpg\")
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