Japan Launches Cargo Ship to Space Station
Credit: JAXA
TOKYO (JAXA PR) — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 6 (H-IIB F6) with cargo transporter to the International Space Station, the H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI6” (HTV6) on board at 10:26:47 p.m. on December 9, 2016 (JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center.
The launch vehicle flew as planned, and at approximately 15 minutes and 11 seconds after liftoff, the separation of HTV6 was confirmed.
At the time of the launch,the weather was fine, the wind speed was 4.3 meters/second, from the north-west, and the temperature was 15.5 degrees Celsius.
Reference:
H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 6 Flight Sequence (Quick Estimation)
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They launched the new JEM cube sat launcher.. doubles the amount of cube sats.
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/htv/m…
Orbital debris dispenser…
H-11Bs are fun to watch and listen to.
Cool!
well with Japan, ESA, RSAProgress,RSA Soyuz SpaceX, Orbital-atk Antares 2, Orbital/ULA Antares/Atlas. It seems we have about 8 ways to get materials up
to station. Despite Shuttle going away and problems with various launchers,
we seem to have built a robust system via diversity.
ESA doesn’t launch to the station anymore.