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[b]Japan's HTV-5 departs space station[/b] Following a one-orbit delay to clear an error message from the space station's robotic arm, flight engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA, backed up by NASA flight engineer Kjell Lindgren, commanded the release of Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)-5 from the International Space Station on Monday (Sept. 28) at 11:53 a.m. CDT (1653 GMT) while the spacecraft was flying 256 miles above the Southern Pacific. The HTV was unberthed from the space station's Harmony module earlier that same day at 6:12 a.m. CDT (1112 GMT). The HTV-5 then moved away from the orbiting laboratory to a safe distance where was to set to perform three engine firings to begin its controlled deorbit to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday. HTV-5 carried a variety of experiments and supplies to the space station, including the NanoRacks External Payload Platform, which can house multiple investigations in the open-space environment of the station, and the CALorimetric Electron Telescope investigation, an astrophysics mission that measures high energy particles to search for dark matter and the origin of cosmic rays.
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