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Friday, September 14, 2012

End of mission for Kounotori 3


This morning at approximately 5:30 UTC the third space freighter H-II of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ended its mission decayed in the atmosphere, as planned.

He had docked to the International Space Station since last July 27.


There took 4.6 tons of supplies, spare parts, materials, and scientific, between him experiments winners YouTube Space Lab, designed by two U.S. teenagers and one Egyptian.

Upon his return was full of waste materials from the ISS, acting as the garbage truck of this, but also was carrying a pair of data recorders so that scientists can analyze how it behaves better shed reentry and to refine the design of these and reentry maneuvers themselves.

The upcoming release of a cargo ship to the ISS could be the Dragon SPX-1, the first release "standard" of a private space freighter to the ISS after the success of the mission Dragon C2.

This launch is planned for now to October 9, and will follow that of the Progress M-17M on 31 October.

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