A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket is set for launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station, NASA reported on October 13, 2026.

According to the agency, Dragon will dock autonomously at the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module at approximately 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 15. NASA said its live rendezvous and docking coverage begins at 9:15 a.m.

Aboard the spacecraft is the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays, which NASA says will augment the laboratory's power system and increase available electricity for research, operations, and the station's safe and controlled deorbit. Astronauts are to install the arrays during spacewalks planned for later this fall. Dragon is also carrying experiments including hardware to manufacture artificial retinas in microgravity and 3D heart tissue models for large-scale drug testing, along with materials to study glass formation and brain organoids aimed at neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis.