Watch live: Progress supply ship on final approach to space station

Russia’s automated Progress MS-17 cargo ship is approaching the International Space Station for docking at 9:03 p.m. EDT Thursday (0103 GMT Friday), wrapping up a two-day journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with nearly 2.7 tons of fuel, food, water, and supplies.

The unpiloted supply freighter launched from Baikonur at 7:27 p.m. EDT (2327 GMT) Tuesday atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket. Since then, the cargo craft completed a series of orbital maneuvers to match the altitude of the space station, setting up for a radar-guided rendezvous Thursday.

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