A Russian cargo-carrying spaceship is spinning uncontrollably after launching early Tuesday morning from Kazakhstan.
NASA said Russian flight controllers observed the Progress 59 cargo vehicle spinning as it passed over Russian ground stations.
Controllers are continuing to send commands to the ship to re-establish communication with the unmanned craft.
The last signal received from the Progress was that the solar arrays had deployed after it reached orbit.
"For the third time, the Russian flight control team attempted to confirm the status of the spacecraft's systems and uplink commands to Progress," NASA spokesman Michael Curie said. "Controllers made two unsuccessful attempts to communicate with each of the Kurs rendezvous antennae."
The Progress was launched atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:09 a.m. Tuesday.
The cargo ship is carrying more than 6,000 pounds of supplies for astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including food and water. The ISS is stocked with enough supplies to last the astronauts at least four months without resupplying.