Russia launched a resupply spacecraft on Thursday, February 15, to the International Space Station. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-26 spacecraft successfully took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The vessel was successfully put into orbit and is due to dock with the station on Saturday morning, according to the same source. It must deliver fuel, equipment for scientific experiments and food products for the astronauts to the ISS crew. Seven people are currently on board the flying laboratory: three Russian cosmonauts, two American astronauts, a Dane and a Japanese.