Meteorologists are predicting a 90 per cent chance of favourable weather for liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft, NASA said.
The launch will take place from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Carrying about 4,800 pounds of cargo including critical science and research equipment, the Dragon spacecraft will spend a month attached to the space station.
The mission will carry investigation that could help lower the risk to human life and critical hardware by orbital debris, NASA said.
It will also carry crew supplies, equipment and other scientific research to crew members living and working aboard the station.
One such investigation will attempt to pull fiber optic wire from ZBLAN, a heavy metal fluoride glass commonly used to make fiber optic glass.
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