Washington: SpaceX capsule the Dragon has successfully linked up on Wednesday with the International Space Station, the US space agency NASA said.
A robot arm operated by two of the six astronauts aboard the space station snatched the Dragon capsule more than half-hour ahead of schedule at 1056 GMT, it said.
The docking will be completed after the ISS crew first inspects the capsule’s condition with the help of cameras, a task that was expected to take another two hours, a NASA television announcer said.
SpaceX, the private company owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the Dragon Sunday evening atop a Falcon 9 rocket from an air base in Cape Canaveral, Florida near the Kennedy Space Center.
The capsule is loaded with 400 kilograms of equipment and material for scientific experiments that will be conducted by an ISS crew commanded by American astronaut Sunit Williams.
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