On Tuesday NASA reported that a Russian resupply ship bound for the International Space Station had suffered a critical malfunction and would not dock with the ISS as scheduled. The six ISS crew members “are adequately supplied well beyond the next planned resupply flight,” NASA assured.

The Russian spacecraft launched just after 3am Eastern Time (1pm in Kazakhstan) on a Soyuz booster rocket.

"Right after it separated from the Soyuz booster’s third stage, an unspecified problem prevented Russian flight controllers from determining whether navigational antennas had deployed and whether fuel system manifolds had pressurized as planned,’ NASA wrote. The Russian flight crew extended Progress’ orbit time to try to salvage the mission and get the cargo ship back on track, but when they were unable to receive telemetry signals from parts of the system, they decided to postpone the scheduled docking with ISS indefinitely.

Video taken from the cargo ship’s engineering camera showed it spinning dramatically through space. "The next attempt to link with the spacecraft comes at 8:50pm EDT Tuesday,” NASA said.

NASA continued that none of the supplies on the cargo ship were critical to the ISS operations in the near future—the next resupply ship will be a SpaceX vehicle that launches June 19.

Progress 59 was carrying "more than three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the space station crew, including 1,940 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water, and 3,128 pounds of spare parts, supplies and scientific experiment hardware,” NASA said. "Among the US supplies on board are spare parts for the station’s environmental control and life support system, backup spacewalk hardware, and crew clothing, all of which are replaceable.”

Space.com noted that Russia’s Progress ships are disposable and have been restocking the ISS for 15 years with a high success rate. The unmanned ships dock automatically with the ISS, although ISS crew can manually guide Progress ships in if the automated system fails.