A Russian space freighter launched on Tuesday morning has been “indefinitely postponed” from the schedule to dock at the International Space Station. A malfunction occurred shortly after launch that caused the Progress 59 cargo to spin in a dizzying pattern.

The cargo ship was to dock on Thursday with food, fuel and other supplies with the International Space Station, as well as carry out other on-board activities. The controllers of the Progress 59 ship gave up any attempt to dock by Thursday, April 30, 2015 to [it being] “indefinitely postponed” said NASA spokesperson, Rob Navis on NASA TV.

The Progress 59 ship was atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Biakonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstanand, and, once launched at 3:09 am EDT, the problem was discovered. Over 3 tons of food fuel and other supplies are contained on the ship.

Mr. Navias said, during a televised conference from NASA’s Mission Control in Houston at the Johnson Space Center, that telemetry with the ship was affected. He went on to say, “No confirmation of navigational antenna deploy or of the pressurization of the manifold system for the propulsion system on the spacecraft was received.”

The ship has passed in 4 orbits around the earth while the flight controllers attempted to regain control, however, their efforts have not yet given any results. As the ship makes another orbit, they will attempt to get control of the cargo ship.

The Progress spacecraft line is a Russian project which have been in service since the first crew began their tenure on the International Space Station in 2000. This spacecraft is a disposable robotic space ship and a workhorse for the space station’s needs. Mostly, these journeys have been successful with at least one notable problem in 2011, when a Progress 44 malfunctioned at launch.

Many countries participate in docking at the station with robotic ships including the US and Japan.

The last successful docking was on April 17, 2015 with the launch on April 14, 2015.