Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Sept. 16, 2026, to share mission coverage times.
Editor’s Note: NASA will provide updated coverage times after Roscosmos releases the launch date and details.
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station.
The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 9:33 a.m. EDT (6:33 p.m. Baikonur time), Wednesday, Sept. 16, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s live launch coverage will begin at 9:15 a.m.
After a three-day trip to the space station, Progress will dock autonomously to the Poisk module’s space-facing port at 9:46 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 19. NASA’s arrival coverage will begin at 9 a.m.
NASA will stream these events live through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online:
The spacecraft will remain docked to the orbiting laboratory for about five months before departing to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, where it will harmlessly burn up over the Pacific Ocean.
Before Progress 96 arrives, the Progress 94 spacecraft undocked from the space station at 11:18 a.m., Sept. 7, followed by its departure and a destructive re-entry.
For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build on the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.
Learn more about the International Space Station, its research, and crew, at:
-end-
Joshua Finch / Jimi Russell
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / james.j.russell@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov
Source: NASA