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DRAGON CRS-35

US Cargo Spacecraft (ISS Resupply — Final iROSA Solar Arrays) · SpaceX / NASA

Dragon CRS-35 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on October 13, 2026 and docked itself to the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module two days later, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies. Its headline cargo was the last pair of roll-out solar arrays (iROSAs) the ISS will ever receive. They launch rolled up like a carpet and unfurl on a spacewalk, finishing a power upgrade NASA says the station needs all the way to its own safe, controlled deorbit at the end of its life. Also aboard: an experiment that builds artificial retinas one thin layer at a time, 3D heart-tissue models, brain 'organoid villages' grown from several people's cells to study neurodegenerative disease, and a test urinal for the Artemis III Moon landing. Unlike Progress and Cygnus, which burn up, Dragon comes home. When it splashes down in the Pacific in mid-November it brings back research samples and a failed Canadarm2 joint swapped out on a June 30 spacewalk, carried home in a foam clamshell that flew up empty just to hold it.