(VOVworld) – Russia’s Progress M-28M spacecraft carrying 2.4 tons of cargo docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.

Soyuz-U carrier rocket. (Photo: EPA/ TASS)

The docking took place in automatic mode, according to an official of Roskosmos, Russia’s space agency. A Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the Progress M-28M onboard lifted off from the Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan on July 3. The Progress M-28M is expected to deliver water, food, fuel, oxygen, and equipment for scientific experiments.