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 [...]
July 02 - September 14, 2012: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) on July 21, 2012 at 02:05 GMT. After successfully completing phasing, the HTV-3 was given the “GO” to fly under automatic control to its [...]