MOSCOW -- A Russian supply ship that took off on Monday will bring 5,440 pounds (2,468 kilograms) of cargo to the International Space Station, the mission control center said.

The Progress M1-7, which blasted off at 1:24 p.m. EST (1824 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, is loaded with equipment for the Zarya supply module and for the station's heat and gas system, as well as with fuel, air, food and medicine for the crew, the center, which is located in Korolyov near Moscow, told Interfax.

The cargo includes the rhomb-shaped Kolibri micro-satellite, which will be orbited as Progress undocks from the station, and will be used in Russian and Austrian research programs.

Progress will dock with the station at 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 GMT) on Wednesday, the center said.

The station's current Expedition Three crew, U.S. astronaut Frank Culbertson (the commander) and Russians Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, will be replaced by the Expedition Four crew that will take off aboard the shuttle Endeavour from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.

The commander of the replacement crew is Russian cosmonaut Yury Onufriyenko. The other two members are NASA astronauts Daniel Bursh and Carl Walz.