February 5, 2017: Today the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced completion of the destructive re-entry of the sixth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), named Kounotori-6, bringing to an end its mission. Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex [...]
December 13, 2016: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, its sixth such cargo mission. After a nominal launch from Tanegashima, Japan on December 9, HTV reached ISS and [...]
September 29, 2015: Today the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced completion of the destructive re-entry of the fifth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), named Kounotori-5, bringing to an end its mission. Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex [...]
August 24, 2015: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, its fifth such cargo mission. After a nominal launch from Tanegashima, Japan on August 19, HTV reached ISS and [...]
September 7, 2013: Today the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced completion of the destructive re-entry of the fourth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), named Kounotori-4, bringing to an end its nearly month-long mission. After a successful attached operations phase, HTV-4 was unberthed [...]
August 9, 2013: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their fourth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-4) from Tanegashima Space Center on August 3, 2013 at 14:48:46 GMT. After successfully completing phasing, the HTV-4 was given the “GO” to fly under automatic control [...]