Author Topic: H-IIB F9 - HTV-9 - ISS - May 20, 2020 (17:31 UTC) (Read 49597 times)

zubenelgenubi · « **on:** 03/19/2020 08:20 pm »

Cross-post re: HTV-9 launch date and time window:

Quote from: Salo on 03/19/2020 07:12 pm

H2B F9 - May 20 15:00-18:00 UTC:
https://twitter.com/mageshiman1025/status/1240588157772419073

Google translate:

Quote

As expected, MBC South Japan Broadcasting. It [launch] is from 0 to 3:00 to be in the early hours of May 21. That means the aircraft [launch vehicle] would move [to the launch pad] around noon on May 20th. Wait for the official announcement.

***

Are the delivery images in the tweet stock footage or are they of this flight's hardware?

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #1 on:** 03/24/2020 04:21 am »

JAXA has officially announced the launch time as May 20 @ 17:30 UTC: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2020/03/20200324-1_j.html

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #2 on:** 04/10/2020 11:38 am »

https://twitter.com/mhi_ls/status/1248567343195631618

Quote

March 19 The rocket body arrived at Tanegashima (Shima Port). #H2BF9

https://twitter.com/mhi_ls/status/1248567729595940869

Quote

March 23 The first stage rocket was carried into the maintenance building. #H2BF9

https://twitter.com/mhi_ls/status/1248568008026386436

Quote

March 23 The first stage rocket and the second stage rocket were combined. #H2BF9

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #3 on:** 04/10/2020 01:01 pm »

https://twitter.com/mhi_ls/status/1248568292865798145

Quote

April 1-5 April Solid Rocket Booster (SRB-A) has been combined. #H2BF9

yoichi · « **Reply #4 on:** 04/15/2020 01:13 pm »

HTV-9 press-kit
http://issstream.tksc.jaxa.jp/iss2/press/htv9_presskit_B.pdf

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #5 on:** 04/25/2020 09:56 pm »

Cross-post:

Quote from: Olaf on 04/23/2020 01:16 pm

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html
Quote
May 25, Monday
6:15 a.m. – Coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the JAXA/HTV-9 cargo ship at the International Space Station; capture scheduled at 7:50 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
9:15 a.m. – Coverage of the installation of the JAXA/HTV-9 cargo ship to the International Space Station (All Channels)

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #6 on:** 05/01/2020 07:51 am »

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #7 on:** 05/13/2020 07:09 pm »

Bump! One week to launch.

Are there any long range forecasts for launch day? The weekly weather report for Tanegashima,
http://space.jaxa.jp/tnsc/tn-weather/data/weekly.gif , returns the 403 Forbidden code.

Targeteer · « **Reply #8 on:** 05/13/2020 08:19 pm »

May 13, 2020
MEDIA ADVISORY M20-058
NASA TV to Air Launch, Capture of Cargo Ship to International Space Station

NASA will broadcast the launch of a Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station beginning at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 20, live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are scheduled to launch the unpiloted H-II Transport Vehicle-9 (HTV-9) on a Japanese H-IIB rocket at 1:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. Thursday, May 21, Japan time) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan.

The spacecraft will arrive at the station Monday, May 25. Live coverage of rendezvous and grapple will begin at 6:45 a.m. Capture of HTV-9 is scheduled to occur around 8:15 a.m. HTV-9 will approach the station from below and slowly make its way toward the orbital outpost. Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA, with assistance from Russian Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos, will operate the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm from the station’s cupola and grapple the 12-ton spacecraft.

Coverage of HTV-9’s final installation will resume at 9:30 a.m., when flight controllers in mission control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will take over robotic arm operations and berth HTV-9 to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Harmony module, where it will remain for two months.

The cargo craft will carry more than four tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the station crew, including six new lithium-ion batteries needed to complete an overall update of the station’s electrical system. The batteries and corresponding adapter plates will replace aging nickel-hydrogen batteries for two power channels on the station’s far starboard truss segment (S6) through a series of spacewalks by the station’s crew members planned for later this year. This is the final set of new batteries to be launched to the station as part of an overall upgrade of its power system that began in January 2017.

This also will be the final flight of this class of resupply spacecraft, named “Kounotori” – the Japanese word for white stork. The cargo craftlaunched on its maiden mission to the orbiting laboratory in September 2009. JAXA is developing a new class of HTV vehicles that will provide a reusable pressurized cargo section and the ability to carry more cargo due to its lighter weight. The new HTV-X vehicles will dock automatically to the station’s International Docking Adapters with the first flight scheduled in 2022.

For nearly 20 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked on the space station, testing technologies, performing science and developing the skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Through NASA’s Artemis program, the agency will send astronauts to the Moon by 2024, with eventual human exploration of Mars. Inspiring the next generation of explorers – the Artemis Generation – ensures America will continue to lead in space exploration and discovery.

centaurinasa · « **Reply #9 on:** 05/14/2020 07:32 am »

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1260742877862387713

yoichi · « **Reply #10 on:** 05/15/2020 03:35 am »

HTV9 Payload
https://iss.jaxa.jp/en/htv/mission/htv-9/payload/

presskit_C
http://issstream.tksc.jaxa.jp/iss2/press/htv9_presskit_C.pdf

history of KOUNOTORI
http://issstream.tksc.jaxa.jp/iss2/press/htv9_presskit_ayumi.pdf

theonlyspace · « **Reply #11 on:** 05/15/2020 11:49 pm »

Is there any way to get these press kits in English or can someone covert these to English and post on here?

yoichi · « **Reply #12 on:** 05/18/2020 06:49 am »

https://twitter.com/MHI_LS/status/1261229571979919360

JAXA official live

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #13 on:** 05/19/2020 06:38 am »

https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1262633508633108519

Rik ISS-fan · « **Reply #14 on:** 05/19/2020 02:09 pm »

I'm not able to read Japanese, but I think this are the payloads:
External:
Launch: 6x Li-Ion Batteries & 6x Adapter plates
Disposal 8x NiH2 Batteries

Basic Express Rack 11, ER-11B (the 3th BER rack)
European Drawer Rack 2, EDR2 (Second generation EDR will be used for ISS-EDEN plant growth)
I've no clue where these racks will be located. I expect EDR2 in COL possibly overhead 2 or Forward 3.
New MPSR-rack insert, Solid Combustion Experiment Module (SCEM). Most likely a replacement for ELF (Electrostatic Levitation Furnace) located inside the combustion chamber MPSR-2.
An I-SEEP (external payload); integrated Standard Imager for Microsatellites (iSIM).
A NORS gas (O2/N2) resupply tank (filled with N2).
One or more additional tanks (from SpaceShuttles) for the Water Stowage System (WSS @ Lab-D4)
A biology microscope; (Cosmic) Confocal Space Microscopy
And lastly for JAXA the Space Frontier studio, equipment for a two way live streaming system.
Besides these experiment and system payloads, there is water and food, with perishable items.

Most likely a RSR rack will be trashed. possibly also another rack. They will most likely come from PMM.

Edit to add:
According to Nasa daily summary report 5/14/2020; the
European Transport Carrier (ETC), located at Columbus Deck 4, will be disposed on HTV-9.
Also on report 12/5/2020: 'PMM1P4 RSR Cleanout (ongoing)'
So the RSR (Resupply Stowage Rack) at PMM Port4 will most likely also be trashed.

I know, from 'ESA User Guide to Low Gravity platforms' that:
COL F3 is an active payload site for Nasa. Currently a ZSR (Zero-G Stowage Rack) is located there.
COL D4 is a passive site, for stowage.
And COL O2 is a active site, for ESA. A ZSR is also located here.