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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Russia plans to launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station today (Sept. 16), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n The robotic Progress 96 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz<\/a> rocket from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome<\/a> in Kazakhstan today at 9:33 a.m. EDT (1333 GMT).<\/p>\n You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency,<\/a> beginning at 9:15 a.m. EDT (1315 GMT).<\/p>\n \n Roscosmos’ Progress 92 cargo spacecraft is photographed in March 2026 from the International Space Station as it flies into an orbital sunset 267 miles above Earth\u2019s surface. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n Progress 96 is loaded with about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies for the astronauts aboard the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS). The freighter will deliver this cargo two days after launch, if all goes according to plan. You’ll be able to watch rendezvous and docking activities when the time comes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The freighter will remain docked to the orbiting lab for about five months. It will then be loaded up with trash and sent down to a fiery death in Earth’s atmosphere<\/a> over the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The Progress 94 spacecraft met this fate on Sept. 7, departing from ISS’ Poisk module to make room for Progress 96.<\/p>\n Progress is one of four spacecraft that fly operational cargo missions to the ISS these days, along with Japan’s HTV-X<\/a>, SpaceX<\/a>‘s Dragon capsule and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus<\/a>. All but Dragon are expendable, burning up in our air when their time in orbit is up.<\/p>\n There are currently seven people living aboard the ISS \u2014 NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Anil Menon; the European Space Agency<\/a>‘s Sophie Adenot, who last month became the first French woman<\/a> ever to perform a spacewalk; and Pyotr Dubrov, Andrey Fedyaev and Anna Kikina of the Russian space agency Roscosmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Progress 96 Cargo Ship Launch – YouTube Watch On Russia plans to launch a cargo mission to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-626396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"photo](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dDde5FYNDkvxt7gU9oRoJc.jpg\")
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