HTV-7 has been captured by the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, delivering a new set of batteries for the external portion of the Station’s power generating and storage systems as well as new full-sized experiment racks and glove boxes for the inside of the orbital outpost. The vehicle headed to space on the second attempt, launching at 02:52:27 JST on Sunday, 23 September at the Tanegashima launch site – which was 1752:27 UTC/13:52:27 EDT on Saturday, 22 September – ahead of a five day trip to the Station.
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Japan made another addition to its constellation of reconnaissance satellites with the launch of the…
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A Japanese reconnaissance satellite rode to orbit Tuesday aboard the country’s H-IIA carrier rocket. Liftoff,…
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Japan launched the second satellite of its Global Change Observation Mission Saturday. The GCOM-C satellite…
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Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA (H-2A) rocket Tuesday (local time) carrying the country’s…
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA rocket on Saturday (05:30 UTC), carrying the third…
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Russia conducted a complex mission Friday to deploy seventy-three satellites via a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with…
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket launched the second navigation satellite in the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System in…
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket has lofted the next in a series of new-generation radar imaging satellite…
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Japan has conducted the launch of the DSN-2 military communications satellite on Tuesday via its…
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Japan’s Epsilon rocket conducted its second flight Tuesday, orbiting JAXA’s ERG satellite to study Earth’s…
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Following what was the fifth orbital launch of December, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)…
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Japan has launched the Himawari 9 weather satellite on Wednesday afternoon local time, with the…
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Japan launched the ASTRO-H x-ray astronomy satellite via its H-IIA rocket Wednesday, with a launch…
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Japan has conducted its first dedicated commercial satellite launch Tuesday, with an H-IIA rocket carrying…
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Japan’s HTV-5 cargo vehicle has departed the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday ahead of…
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The Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle-5 (HTV-5) resupply spacecraft successfully arrived at the International Space Station…
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Japan’s HTV-5 spacecraft “Kounotori 5” has launched en route to the International Space Station on…
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket has made its second flight of the year Thursday, carrying a new-generation…