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Japan's final HTV cargo spacecraft leaves space station for fiery end [i]Japan's "white stork" has taken flight from the International Space Station for the last time. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ninth H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-9, was released from its temporary perch at the end of the space station's robotic arm on Tuesday (Aug. 18) at 1:36 p.m. EDT (1736 GMT). The uncrewed cargo vehicle, which JAXA nicknamed the "Kounotori," or "white stork," will spend two more days in orbit before flight controllers in Tsukuba, Japan command an engine burn that it will send the spacecraft plunging back into Earth's atmosphere.[/i]
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