Siódmy "Bocian" 22.09. o 17:52:27 z Tanegashima wystrzelona została RN H-2B, która wyniosła w T+14' 20" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=173 km,
ha=287 km, i=51,63° japoński automatyczny statek transportowy HTV-7 (Kounotori-7). Jego uchwycenie wykonano 27.09.2018
o 11:34, a połączenie z ISS o 14:09.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n180916.htm#03Siódmy Bocian w drodze do Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej BY MICHAŁ MOROZ ON 23 WRZEŚNIA 2018
Z Japonii wystrzelono siódmy pojazd logistyczny Kounotori. “Bocian” dostarczy 6,2 tony ładunku na pokład stacji.
Start rozpoczął się 22 września o godzinie 19:52. Pojazd Kounotori (HTV-7) został wyniesiony na orbitę na pokładzie rakiety nośnej H-IIB, oddzielając się od niej po 14 minutach i 59 sekundach lotu. Na pokładzie pojazdu zbudowanego przez Mitsubishi Heavy Industries znajduje się 6,2 tony ładunku, z czego 4,3 tony zostanie przewiezione w części ciśnieniowej. Pozostałe 1,9 ton to przede wszystkim 7 akumulatorów litowo-jonowych, które zastąpią wysłużone już akumulatory niklowo-wodorkowe.
Prócz eksperymentów naukowych (EXPRESS Rack 9B i 10B oraz Life Sciences Glovebox dla NASA, japoński Loop Heat Pipe Radiator) na pokładzie znajdują się również trzy CubeSaty (SPATIUM-I, RSP-00, STARS-Me), które zostaną później wyrzucone z japońskiej śluzy w module Kibo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=5FUzMkD8CsENagranie startu rakiety H-IIB z siódmym pojazdem Kounotori.
Najciekawszym eksperymentem będzie test małej kapsuły powrotnej HTV Small Re-entry Capsule (HSRC). Łącznie będzie ona w stanie szybko dostarczyć na Ziemię do 20 kg eksperymentów naukowych. Kapsuła ma średnicę 84 cm i wysokość 65,7 cm, zaś masę niższą od 180 kg. Tym samym Japończycy pozyskają własną technologie sprowadzania ładunków z Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej.
Przekrój kapsuły HSRC / JAXAPrzechwycenie przez mechaniczne ramię i przycumowanie do stacji będzie zrealizowane 27 września.
(JAXA, ParabolicArc)
https://kosmonauta.net/2018/09/siodmy-bocian-w-drodze-do-miedzynarodowej-stacji-kosmicznej/New sample return capability launches with Japanese space station freighterSeptember 22, 2018 Stephen Clark
Reporters and photographers visited Japan’s seventh H-2 Transfer Vehicle in a clean room before launch at the Tanegashima Space Center. Credit: JAXAThe HTV is loaded with more than 5.2 tons — more than 4.7 metric tons — of cargo. Among the logistics is 3,014 pounds (1,367 kilograms) of external equipment comprising six lithium-ion batteries and adapter plates.
Inside the HTV’s pressurized cabin, workers loaded 7,489 pounds (3,397 kilograms) of cargo for JAXA, NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, including fresh food, crew provisions, scientific gear, computer equipment and spare parts.
The HTV is the largest logistics vehicle currently flying to the International Space Station, capable of hauling heavier loads than Russian Progress freighters, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply carrier. (...)
The Japanese space agency has developed a new return path for biological specimens to come back to Earth from the space station, and the re-entry capsule will debut later this year after the HTV departs the research outpost.
The HTV is designed to burn up in the atmosphere during re-entry, but the small sample return capsule carries a heat shield to survive the trip back to Earth. The re-entry vehicle is relatively modest in size, measuring 33 inches (84 centimeters) in diameter and 26 inches (66 centimeters) in height, with a weight of less than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), excluding the sample carried inside.
JAXA says the the capsule has an internal volume of about 30 liters, and astronauts could load up to 44 pounds (20 kilograms) of specimens inside the landing craft, which features a thermos-like container to store refrigerated biological samples. That is a fraction of the carrying capacity of the Dragon capsule, but the new HTV Small Return Capsule will offer station managers a new way to make sure time-critical items can return to Earth for analysis.
Astronauts will assemble the return capsule after the HTV arrives at the station, and mount it into position over the HTV’s forward hatch for deployment once the supply ship leaves the station.
The capsule, which carries no engines of its own, will jettison after the HTV completes its deorbit burn. The re-entry craft will deploy a parachute and splash down in the Pacific Ocean, where recovery teams will retrieve it and bring it back to Japan for inspections.
The HTV Small Return Capsule. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now(...) Also aboard the Kounotori supply ship:
- Two refrigerator-size Express science racks will allow the station to host more research experiments.
- An experimental European advanced closed-loop life support system will demonstrate new air purification and oxygen-generation capabilities that could be used on future deep space missions.
- A new research facility called the Life Sciences Glovebox, built by JAXA in partnership with the Dutch firm Bradford Engineering, will allow astronauts to work with biological and human physiology experiment samples.
- Three Japanese CubeSats will be transferred into the space station from the HTV and released into orbit.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/22/new-sample-return-capability-launches-with-japanese-space-station-freighter/https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/14/h-2b-htv-7-mission-status-center/Japan conducts HTV-7 launch to Space Station, test of new recoverable capsulewritten by Chris Gebhardt September 21, 2018
A diagram of the four constituent parts of the HTV resupply vehicle. (Credit: JAXA/NASA)https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/09/japan-cargo-space-station-test-new-recoverable-capsule/Launch of Japan’s seventh HTV supply ship reset for SaturdaySeptember 21, 2018 Stephen Clark
The H-2B rocket and Japan’s seventh HTV supply ship rolled out to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center ahead of a scrubbed launch attempt Sept. 14. Credit: MHI(...) Japan’s seventh HTV mission is nicknamed Kounotori 7, the Japanese word for “white stork” (...)
(...) Meanwhile, the robot arm and the station’s Dextre robot handyman will remove a pallet carrying six fresh batteries from the HTV’s external payload bay. The new lithium-ion batteries, ordered by NASA, will replace aging nickel-hydrogen batteries used on the station’s huge power truss, which has four pairs of solar array masts spanning 240 feet (73 meters) tip-to-top to generate electricity for the orbiting research outpost. (...)
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