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    Cargo Craft Departs Before Two Resupply Spacecraft Launch

    JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui smiles for a portrait after trimming NASA astronaut Mike Fincke's hair aboard the International Space Station.

    The Zvezda service module’s rear port opened up today after the undocking and departure of the trash-filled Progress 91 cargo craft completing a six-and-a-half-month stay at the International Space Station. The vacant port now awaits the arrival of the Progress 93 cargo craft set to launch from Kazakhstan at 11:54 a.m. EDT on Thursday.

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    Roscosmos Progress 91 Undocked from Space Station 

    Sept. 9, 2025: International Space Station Configuration. Four spaceships are docked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, the SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft, the Soyuz MS-27 crew ship, and the Progress 92 resupply ship.

    The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 11:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, backing away from the station for a deorbit maneuver and destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.  

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    NASA’s PExT, Wideband Space Communications Demo Begins Commissioning

    A 3D rendering of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) satellite viewed at a three-quarter angle in low Earth orbit. The spacecraft’s white parabolic antenna dish is pointed to the upper-right, and its four deep teal solar arrays extend outward to form an X-shape. Earth is partially visible across the lower edge of the frame, the curve of its horizon illuminated by a flare of bright sunlight.

    Payload commissioning is underway for NASA’s PExT (Polylingual Experimental Terminal), a first-of-its-kind space communications demonstration designed to allow spacecraft to communicate with government and commercial networks. After launching on July 23, York Space Systems established first contact with their Bard satellite, the host spacecraft for PExT, and began bus commissioning on schedule. Over the next […]

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    Station Gets Ready for Two Cargo Missions Launching Days Apart

    The Progress 92 cargo craft is pictured docked to the International Space Station one month after docking to the Poisk module and delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew.

    The Progress 93 cargo craft from Roscosmos rolled out to its launch pad today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where will launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT on Thursday to the International Space Station. Progress 93, carrying 2.8 tons of food, fuel, and supplies to resupply the Expedition 73 crew, will arrive at the orbital outpost and automatically dock to the Zvezda service module’s aft port at 1:27 p.m. on Saturday. NASA+ will begin its live launch broadcast at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday followed by docking coverage beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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    NASA’s Dragonfly Soaring Through Key Development, Test Activities

    NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft being designed and built for NASA at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will explore Saturn’s moon Titan. Following launch and a six-year journey to […]

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