On Oct. 25 at 8:20 p.m. EDT, a Soyuz rocket was launched the unmanned Progress 82 freighter toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (0020 GMT and 5:20 a.m. local Baikonur time on Oct. 26).

Almost 3 tonnes of food, fuel, and other supplies are being transported by Progress 82 for the Expedition 68 crew aboard the orbiting lab.

If everything goes as planned, the freighter will pursue the ISS for two days before finally catching up with it and docking on Thursday, October 27 at 10:49 p.m. EDT (0249 GMT on October 28). Thanks to NASA TV, you can watch the arrival right here on Space.com. The coverage will start at 10:15 p.m. EDT (0215 GMT on Oct. 28).

One of the three robotic spacecraft that currently transport cargo to the ISS is Progress. The Dragon from SpaceX and the Cygnus from Northrop Grumman are the other two privately owned American spaceships. Progress and Cygnus are disposable spacecraft that explode in Earth's atmosphere when their orbital period is up, while Dragon is a reusable spacecraft.

In fact, the Progress 80 spacecraft recently perished, departing from the International Space Station on Sunday, October 23, and completing a planned death dive shortly after. However, Progress 81, which arrived in June, is still docked to the International Space Station. Currently, there are also two crewed vehicles docked with the orbiting lab. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is one of them; it arrived in September.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is one of them; it arrived in September. One is NASA's Crew-5 mission, which is being carried out by SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule Endurance. On October 5, Endurance was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and it arrived at the ISS the following day.