The SSRMS (Canadarm2) grapples Kounotori 6 spacecraft, prior to berthing on 13 December 2016.
Mission type
ISS resupply
Operator
JAXA
COSPAR ID
2016-076A
SATCAT no.
41881
Mission duration
58 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
Kounotori 6
Spacecraft type
HTV
Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Launch mass
16400 kg
Dry mass
10500 kg
Payload mass
5900 kg
Dimensions
9.8 metre of long, 4.4 metre of diameter
Start of mission
Launch date
9 December 2016, 13:26:47 UTC
Rocket
H-IIB No. 6
Launch site
Tanegashima, Yoshinobu 2
Contractor
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
End of mission
Disposal
deorbited
Decay date
5 February 2017, 15:06 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric orbit
Regime
Low Earth orbit
Inclination
51.66°
Berthing at ISS
Berthing port
Harmony
RMS capture
13 December 2016, 10:37 UTC
Berthing date
13 December 2016, 13:57 UTC
Unberthing date
27 January 2017, 10:59 UTC
RMS release
27 January 2017, 15:45 UTC
Cargo
Mass
5900 kg
Pressurised
4000 kg
Unpressurised
1900 kg
HTV ISS Resupply
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Kounotori 6 (こうのとり6号機), also known as HTV-6, was the sixth flight of the H-II Transfer Vehicle, an uncrewed cargo spacecraft launched to resupply the International Space Station. It was launched at 13:26:47 UTC on 9 December 2016 aboard H-IIB launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Center.
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Pressurized Logistics Carrier (PLC). (316 CTBs for Kounotori 8, compared to 248 CTBs of Kounotori6) Kounotori 8 carries about 5300 kg of cargo, consisting...
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changes of Kounotori 5 from previous Kounotori are: Solar panels were reduced to 49 panels, down from 57 on HTV-1 and Kounotori 2, 56 on Kounotori 3, and...
test only. In December 2016 the country sent a space junk collector via Kounotori6 to the ISS by which JAXA scientists experimented to pull junk out of...
Russian Progress spacecraft, European Automated Transfer Vehicles, Japanese Kounotori vehicles, and the American Dragon and Cygnus spacecraft. The primary docking...
(JR-West) in Japan on limited express services such as the Kinosaki and Kounotori from Kyoto and Osaka since 12 March 2011. 287 series EMUs were introduced...
(IATA: TJH, ICAO: RJBT), also known as Kounotori Tajima Airport (コウノトリ但馬空港, Kounotori Tajima Kūkō) is an airport 2.6 NM (4.8 km; 3.0 mi) southwest of Toyooka...
November 19, 2016, bringing the total number of people in the station to 6. Soyuz MS-02 launched on October 19, 2016, transporting Robert S. Kimbrough...
timetable revision. ■ Kounotori, formed as 4- or 4+3-car sets ■ Kuroshio, formed as 6- or 6+3-car sets ■ Rakuraku Harima, formed as 6-car sets The 289 series...
Center". Space.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2020. The Tanegashima Space Center is Japan's biggest rocket-launching...
numerous notable events, including the undocking of the Progress M-09M and Kounotori 2 spacecraft, the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-21 and Progress M-10M spacecraft...
Complex (LC-Y2) on 21 July 2012, at 02:06 UTC, aboard Kounotori 3 atop an H-IIB launch vehicle. Kounotori 3 carried the satellite, along with the RAIKO, WE...
Kuroshio (from October 1978 until 30 October 2015) Yakumo (from July 1982) Kounotori (until 31 May 2011, from 1 June 2012 until 30 October 2015) Kinosaki (from...
and Katamachi Line via JR Tōzai Line) 287 series (Kounotori limited express) 289 series (Kounotori limited express, from 31 October 2015) 103 series (until...
the revised timetable on 16 March 2013. Kitakinki (until March 2011) Kounotori (until 15 March 2013) Kinosaki (until March 2013) Tamba (until March 2011)...
supply ships – Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Japan's HTV (or "Kounotori") and Russia's Progress – all burn up during controlled re-entry. Coppinger...
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