The International Space Station received roughly 3 tons of supplies and equipment from a Russian cargo spacecraft that arrived early Thursday morning (Feb. 17).

At 2:03 a.m., the Progress 80 ship docked with the station's Poisk compartment. EST (0703 GMT), bringing a two-day orbital chase to a close.

Progress 80 took off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome late Monday night (Feb. 14) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket and circled Earth 34 times before hooking up with the space station 270 miles (434 kilometers) above the South Pacific.

During a webcast of the freighter's arrival, NASA officials reported Progress 80 was loaded with 5,667 pounds (2,570 kilograms) of goods. 948 pounds (430 kilogram) of fuel, 89 pounds (40 kg) of nitrogen, 926 pounds (420 lb) of water, and 3,704 pounds (1,680 kg) of replacement parts and other supplies were delivered by the spaceship.

Progress is one of only a few robotic resupply spacecraft that transport food, water, fuel, and scientific equipment to the station and its rotating astronaut crews. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus vehicle and SpaceX's Dragon capsule are the other two. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus vehicle will launch toward the orbiting lab on its own mission this Saturday (Feb. 19), and SpaceX's Dragon capsule will launch on its own mission this Saturday (Feb. 19).