The robotic Dragon supply ship linked up with he ISS around 7:30 a.m.

SpaceX's latest Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday (Nov. 27) to deliver tons of fresh supplies, new solar wings nd even some ice cream for the orbiting lab.

Sunday's meetup ended a brief orbital chase for Dragon; the SpaceX freighter launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 26) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The manifest includes two new International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs), gear designed to augment the orbiting lab's existing solar wings.

— Dragon: First private spacecraft to reach the space station.

— International Space Station: Facts about the orbiting lab.

Dragon's current mission is called CRS-26, because it is the 26th robotic cargo flight that SpaceX is flying to the ISS for NASA.

Dragon is the only currently operational cargo craft that comes back to Earth in one piece following its missions.

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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com (opens in new tab) and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov.

SpaceX Dragon launches science, solar arrays to International Space Station.