A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station at 10:27 a.m. Eastern on October 15, NASA confirmed. It arrived at the space-facing port of the Harmony module on SpaceX’s 35th commercial resupply mission for the agency.

The shipment includes more than 6,300 pounds of food, equipment and research materials, together with the final pair of station roll-out solar arrays. The arrays have arrived but still require later installation.

Research hardware includes systems for artificial-retina manufacturing in microgravity and three-dimensional heart-tissue models. Additional materials support investigations into glass formation and brain organoids, with potential applications that still require experimental evidence.

The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 13. NASA plans for it to remain attached until mid-November, then return time-sensitive research and other cargo to Earth for a planned California-coast splashdown.

Docking completes the outbound rendezvous, not the experiments or the power-system upgrade. Installation, research results, departure and recovery remain distinct future stages of the mission.