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Forum: ESA - JAXA - China - International
Topic: JAXA's H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori-6

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 12-09-2016 09:29 AM <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]HTV-6 launches to space station[/b]</font> Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) launched for the International Space Station on Friday (Dec. 9), with more than 4.5 tons of supplies for the orbiting outpost's six-person crew. The "Kounotori" ("white stork") cargo spacecraft lifted off at 7:26 a.m. CST (1326 GMT; 10:26 p.m. Japan time) on an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e018fUaHqLE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center> A little more than 15 minutes later, the HTV-6 freighter separated from the booster and began its four-day rendezvous with the space station. Aboard the HTV-6, in addition to crew supplies, water and experiment hardware, are six lithium-ion batteries and adapter plates to replace the nickel-hydrogen batteries currently used to store electrical energy generated by the space station solar arrays. The new batteries will be installed during a series of robotic arm operations and spacewalks between late December and mid-January. On Tuesday (Dec. 13), the HTV-6 spacecraft will approach the station from below and slowly inch its way toward the complex. Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Thomas Pesquet will operate the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm from the cupola to reach out and grapple the 12-ton spacecraft. Ground controllers will then install it on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module, where it will spend more than five weeks. Flight engineer Peggy Whitson will monitor HTV-6 systems during the rendezvous and grapple.</blockquote>
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