A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched at 6:33 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to NASA. The flight is SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station and carries more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware.

Dragon is scheduled to dock autonomously at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, at the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module. NASA plans to stream rendezvous and docking coverage from 9:15 a.m. The payload includes the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays, which NASA says will complete the station's power system augmentation and support research, operations and a safe, controlled deorbit. Astronauts will install the arrays during spacewalks planned for later this fall.

The spacecraft also carries experiments including hardware to manufacture artificial retinas in microgravity, 3D heart tissue models for large-scale drug testing, materials to study how a new type of glass forms in microgravity, and brain organoids aimed at potential treatment targets for neurodegenerative diseases. Dragon is scheduled to remain at the station until mid-November, then return to Earth with time-critical research and cargo, splashing down off the coast of California.