Watch the Russian cargo spacecraft arrive at the International Space Station on June 1

A Russian robotic cargo vehicle will arrive at the International Space Station on Saturday morning (June 1), and you can watch the schedule live.

The Progress 88 cargo ship is scheduled to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module on Saturday, two days after its launch from the Russian-run Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Docking will take place at 7:47 AM EST (1147 GMT). Watch it live here on Space.com, sponsored by NASA, starting at 7:00 a.m. EST (1100 GMT).

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Russia’s Progress 85 cargo spacecraft was seen shortly after its separation from the International Space Station on February 12, 2024 as it orbited 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean. (Image credit: NASA)

Progress 88 carries about 3 tons of fuel, food and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The cargo vehicle will remain attached to the orbiting laboratory for about six months, after which it will be filled with trash and headed toward fiery destruction in Earth’s atmosphere, as Progress 86 did earlier this week.

Progress 88 will join four other spacecraft in the orbiting laboratory. Also attached to the ISS are the Progress 87 spacecraft, the Cygnus cargo ship (built by the American company Northrop Grumman), and two crew vehicles: the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

The visitor list will continue to fill up over the coming days, if all goes according to plan. Boeing’s new Starliner capsule is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on Saturday in a crew flight test (CFT), the first astronaut mission ever.

CFT will send NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams to the station for a stay of about a week. If the mission goes well, the Starliner will be certified for operational crewed flights, as the Crew Dragon was four years ago.

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