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The second of three robotic resupply ships going to the International Space Station in two weeks has arrived at its launch pad in Kazakhstan for liftoff Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket.

This is the final spacecraft of this generation of precision, navigation, and timing satellites before the U.S. Space Force shifts to launching GPS IIIF satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 2:53 a.m. EDT (0653 UTC).

Watch as Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague launch aboard a Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station but a Soyuz booster failure cut short their ascent into orbit.