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Dragon reaches space station after Cape Canaveral resupply launch
The cargo spacecraft arrived October 15 carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, research and the station’s final pair of roll-out solar arrays.
A Dragon cargo spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on October 13 and reached the International Space Station two days later, completing the opening leg of NASA’s 35th SpaceX commercial resupply mission.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA said the spacecraft carried more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, hardware and scientific investigations.
New research and more power for the station
The cargo includes the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays. Astronauts are expected to install them during spacewalks later this fall, expanding the electricity available for research, station operations and the laboratory’s eventual controlled deorbit.
NASA’s launch announcement also identifies experiments involving artificial retinas, 3D heart-tissue models, microgravity glass formation and brain organoids. Those investigations are cargo aboard the mission, not results from completed studies.
NASA’s visiting-vehicle record lists the CRS-35 Dragon as docked on October 15. The spacecraft is expected to remain at the station into November before returning research and other cargo to Earth.
The accompanying photograph shows a previous Dragon departure from the station in June 2026 rather than this week’s launch.