A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station on Sunday morning (March 22), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n
A Soyuz<\/a> rocket topped with the robotic Progress 94 freighter is scheduled to lift off from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome<\/a> in Kazakhstan on Sunday at 7:59 a.m. EDT (1159 GMT; 4:59 p.m. local Baikonur time).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency<\/a>. Coverage will begin at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT).<\/p>\n Article continues below <\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Progress 94 will carry about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the astronauts currently living and working on board the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS).<\/p>\n If all goes according to plan, the freighter will chase the orbiting lab for two days, docking with its Poisk module on Tuesday (March 24) at around 9:34 a.m. EDT (1334 GMT). Progress 94 will take the place of Progress 92, which undocked from Poisk<\/a> on Monday (March 16).<\/p>\n You’ll be able to watch Progress 94’s arrival, with coverage beginning Tuesday at 8:45 a.m EDT (1245 GMT).<\/p>\n Progress 94 will spend about six months docked to the ISS. It will then be loaded up with trash and sent to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two other currently operational ISS cargo craft are similarly expendable \u2014 Japan’s HTV-X<\/a> and Cygnus<\/a>, which is built by the aerospace company Northrop Grumman. The only reusable freighter is SpaceX<\/a>‘s Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station on Sunday morning (March 22), and you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-341747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}