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    Progress Resupply Mission Docks to Station

    International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the Cygnus space freighter, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance, and Russia's Soyuz MS-22 crew ship and the Progress 82 and 83 resupply ships.

    An uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s aft port of the Zvezda service module at 3:45 a.m. EST. The spacecraft launched on a Soyuz rocket at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress is delivering almost three tons of food, …

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    NASA TV Airs Resupply Ship Docking to Station

    The ISS Progress 82 cargo craft is pictured shortly after docking to the space station in October of 2022.

    NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed Progress 83 launched on a Soyuz rocket at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Learn more …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/10/2023

    Payloads: Causal Analysis of Cardiorespiratory Coupling on the ISS (Cardiobreath): After donning the Bio-Monitor sensor garment and setting up the appropriate hardware, the crew performed a Cardiobreath exercise session. Astronauts experience changes in their cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems during spaceflight, which can affect their capacity to exercise and to maintain blood pressure when standing …

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    Crew Studies Brain, Digestion System and Waits for Saturday Space Delivery

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio sets up the new Particle Vibration experiment inside the Destiny laboratory module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox on Feb. 3, 2023. The physics study will investigate how particles organize themselves in fluids possibly advancing manufacturing techniques and providing new insights on astrophysics.

    The International Space Station will see a new cargo mission arrive early Saturday, replenishing the Expedition 68 crew. While they wait, the orbital residents continued exploring how microgravity affects the brain and the digestive system while maintaining orbital lab systems. The ISS Progress 83 (83P) cargo craft continues its orbital trek to deliver nearly three …

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    NASA’s ShadowCam Images Permanently Shadowed Regions from Lunar Orbit

    With the success of NASA’s Artemis I launch, the previously unexplored shadowy regions near the lunar South Pole where Artemis astronauts will land in 2025, are more within our reach than ever before. One instrument that will support these future lunar exploration efforts is a hypersensitive optical camera called ShadowCam. ShadowCam is one of six …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/09/2023

    Payloads: Plasma Kristall-4 (PK-4): The PK-4 system was configured to transfer experiment data for subsequent downlink. PK-4 is a scientific collaboration between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), performing research in the field of Complex Plasmas: low temperature gaseous mixtures composed of ionized gas, neutral gas, and micron-sized particles. The micro-particles become highly …

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    Biomedical Science, Space Plumbing as Crew Waits for Cargo Delivery

    The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth's horizon from the International Space Station.

    The Expedition 68 crew is looking forward to a delivery mission that will arrive at the International Space Station this weekend. Meanwhile, space science and orbital plumbing took up the orbital residents’ day as well as more cleanup work following last week’s spacewalk. Nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies, is on its way …

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    Progress Cargo Craft Lifts Off to Resupply Crew

    The ISS Progress 83 cargo craft ascends to Earth orbit after launching on time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV

    The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned, on its way to meet …

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    NASA TV Broadcasts Launch of Station Resupply Mission

    The ISS Progress 81 resupply ship is pictured 266 miles above the Pacific Ocean after undocking from the space station's Zvezda service module on Feb. 7, 2023.

    NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the launch of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed Progress 83 is scheduled to lift off on a Soyuz rocket at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in …

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    CAPSTONE to Test Technologies After Recovery from Communications Issue

    Artemis Logo - red rocket trail, blue arch that represents earth, ARTEMIS text, gray half sphere on a white background

    NASA’s CAPSTONE – short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – is in good health following a communications issue that began in late January, and the mission team is preparing for upcoming technology demonstration tests. Beginning Jan. 26, CAPSTONE was unable to receive commands from ground operators. The spacecraft remained overall …

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