August 8, 2020: Today marks the retirement of the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Between 2009 to 2020, HTV successfully completed 9 resupply missions to the International Space Station. The vehicle, also known as Kounotori or ‘the white stork’ after the colloquial bird [...]
September 28 2019: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, its eighth such cargo mission. After a nominal launch from Tanegashima, Japan on September 24, HTV reached ISS and [...]
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 [...]
