Tag: ISS Cargo
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Japanese cargo ship ends mission after space debris experiment flounders
Artist’s concept of how the tether for Japan’s KITE experiment would have appeared when deployed from the HTV supply ship. Credit: JAXA Japan’s HTV supply ship fell to Earth on Sunday more than a week after leaving the International Space Station, burning up in the atmosphere after officials gave up on an experiment looking into…
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Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest
A view of launch pad 39A, with SpaceX’s rocket erector vertical, taken on Jan. 26. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled to send a Dragon supply ship to…
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Japanese cargo craft departs space station
The HTV 6 supply ship leaves the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Japan’s sixth HTV supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday and headed for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with trash and disused batteries from the research lab, but engineers will first use the spacecraft for…
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Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew’s rocket
File photo of a Soyuz rocket’s RD-0110 engine. Credit: Energia Russian engineers will replace rocket engines on two Soyuz rockets assigned to send a batch of supplies and the next crew to the International Space Station after an investigation revealed foreign objects or a manufacturing defect led to the crash of a Progress cargo craft…
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Japanese HTV makes battery delivery to International Space Station
The sixth Japanese HTV supply ship was grappled by the space station’s robotic arm at 1037 GMT (5:37 a.m. EST) Tuesday after a four-day pursuit following launch on an H-2B rocket. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Four days after a picture-perfect blastoff from southern Japan, a cargo-carrying supply freighter arrived at the International Space Station on…
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Timeline of the H-2B rocket’s launch of the Kounotori 6 supply ship
Japan’s Kounotori 6 cargo carrier will get a boost from a powerful H-2B rocket to send the supply ship and its 4.5 tons of provisions and experiments on a four-day pursuit of the International Space Station. The sixth H-2 Transfer Vehicle is set for liftoff at 1326 GMT (8:26 a.m. EST; 10:26 p.m. Japan Standard…
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Live coverage: Japanese HTV resupply freighter captured by station robotic arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an H-2B rocket with Japan’s sixth H-2 Transfer Vehicle on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Japan’s HTV supply ship blasts off for space station
The 186-foot-tall (56-meter) H-2B rocket takes off from southern Japan Friday. Credit: MHI A Japanese H-2B rocket launched toward the International Space Station on Friday with a fresh set of high-power batteries, critical parts for the research lab’s carbon dioxide scrubber, and several tons of food, water and provisions. The unpiloted HTV cargo carrier on…
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Flight history of Japan’s HTV resupply spacecraft
Japan’s fourth HTV supply ship in the grasp of the space station’s robotic arm in 2013. Credit: JAXA Japan’s H-2 Transfer Vehicle has accomplished five flights to the International Space Station, delivering tons of food, clothing and crew provisions, instruments to look at ozone chemistry and investigate dark matter, and critical hardware to keep the…
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Photos: H-2B rocket emerges for rollout to launch pad at daybreak
A Japanese resupply freighter and its H-2B rocket booster rolled out of the vehicle assembly building at the Tanegashima Space Center just before sunrise Friday for the half-hour trip to the launch pad. Mounted on top of a mobile platform, the 186-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket headed for Launch Pad No. 2 at the Yoshinobu launch complex,…