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[b]HTV-6 departs space station[/b] Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Shane Kimbrough of NASA took control of the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) H-II Transport Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) at 9:46 a.m. CST (1546 GMT) on Jan. 27. Earlier, ground controllers used the robotic arm to unberth the cargo craft from the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. After its release, HTV-6 was moved to a safe distance below and in front of the station for about a week's worth of data gathering with a JAXA experiment designed to measure electromagnetic forces using a tether in low-Earth orbit. JAXA is scheduled to deorbit the craft on Feb. 5.
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