NASA · Friday, September 11, 2026
Progress 96 is still due to dock this afternoon
The File desk · Sep 11, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC
Status
Partially confirmed. NASA’s Progress 96 coverage release still reads as a schedule, last updated Sept. 8, 2026. Liftoff is unverified from NASA primaries. Docking is still due 2:37 p.m. Eastern Friday. This desk did not open a separate NASA post-launch confirmation page.
- Confirmed
NASA’s coverage release scheduled unpiloted Progress 96 to launch at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Wednesday, Sept. 9, from Baikonur, and to dock on its own at the Poisk module’s space-facing port at 2:37 p.m. Eastern Friday, Sept. 11. Arrival coverage was set to start at 1:45 p.m. The spacecraft is to bring about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies and stay about five months.
- Unverified
Unverified on liftoff from NASA primaries. The coverage release still uses scheduled language and shows last updated Sept. 8. Docking is still due 2:37 p.m. Eastern Friday.
A Russian cargo ship is still on NASA’s clock for Friday. The agency’s coverage release says Progress 96 was scheduled to launch at 12:15 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, Sept. 9, from Baikonur and to dock on its own at the Poisk module’s space-facing port at 2:37 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Sept. 11. Arrival coverage was set to start at 1:45 p.m. The spacecraft is to bring about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies and stay about five months. Liftoff is unverified from NASA primaries. The coverage page still reads as a schedule (last updated Sept. 8). Docking is still due 2:37 p.m. Eastern Friday.
A Russian cargo ship is still on NASA’s clock for Friday.
The agency’s coverage release says Progress 96 was scheduled to lift off at 12:15 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, Sept. 9, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Docking is set for 2:37 p.m. Eastern today at the space-facing port of the Poisk module, with coverage from 1:45 p.m. Eastern.
NASA says the unpiloted craft is to bring about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies and stay about five months.
The same release was last updated Sept. 8, 2026. It still uses scheduled language. Liftoff is unverified from NASA primaries. Docking is still due 2:37 p.m. Eastern Friday.
What is still unknown or disputed
- Liftoff is unverified from NASA primaries. Docking outcome is not knowable before 2:37 p.m. Eastern.
Primary sources
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Source 1
NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking
NASA · September 3, 2026
Launch scheduled 12:15 p.m. EDT Sept. 9 from Baikonur; dock Poisk 2:37 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 11; about three tons of supplies. Page last updated Sept. 8, 2026. No post-launch success language on this page at lock.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-cover-progress-96-spacecraft-launch-docking/