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[b]Kounotori-4 captured by space station arm[/b] On Friday (Aug. 9), the fourth Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle, Kounotori-4, arrived in the vicinity of the International Space Station (ISS), approaching the orbiting complex from below to a hold position about 40 feet (12 meters) away. With ISS Expedition 36 flight engineer Luca Parmitano monitoring the Japanese cargo freighter's systems, flight engineers Karen Nyberg and Chris Cassidy used Canadarm2, the space station's robotic arm, to reach out and capture the vehicle at 6:22 a.m. CDT (1122 GMT). With HTV-4 securely grappled, the robotics team at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston will command the arm to install the vehicle to its port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node beginning around 8:30 a.m. CDT (1330 GMT).
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