posted 03-22-2026 10:06 AM               

Progress craft launches to resupply station crew

The Roscosmos Progress MS-33 (94P) spacecraft is headed to the International Space Station following its launch on Sunday (March 22) at 7:59 a.m. EDT (1159 GMT or 4:59 p.m. local time) atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Following the launch, one of the Progress spacecraft's two KURS automated rendezvous antennas did not deploy as planned. All other systems are operating as designed, and Progress will continue toward its planned docking at 9:34 a.m. EDT (1334 GMT) Tuesday, March 24, to the space-facing port of the station's Poisk module.

If the antenna cannot be deployed, cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will remotely pilot the spacecraft through its and rendezvous and docking using the TORU (telerobotically operated rendezvous system), which is a control panel located in the Zvezda service module that can be used as a backup to the KURS automated system.

The Progress MS-33 launch was the first to use Site 31 at the Cosmodrome since the pad's service cabin was destroyed having been damaged during the Soyuz MS-28 launch in November 2025 and replaced in the interim months.

posted 03-24-2026 08:52 AM               

Progress MS-33 docks to space station

Roscosmos' Progress MS-33 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Poisk module at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT) on Tuesday (March 24).

Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov manually piloted the spacecraft during docking using the TORU (Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous System) control panel inside the space station's Zvezda Service Module after one of the spacecraft's two KURS automated rendezvous antennas failed to deploy after launch.

The spacecraft delivered about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 74 crew. It will remain docked to the orbiting laboratory for about six months before departing for a planned destructive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.