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Fifth Japanese Kounotori cargo ship departs from ISS - SpaceFlight Insider


Fifth Japanese Kounotori cargo ship departs from ISS - SpaceFlight Insider After five weeks attached to the International Space Station, Japan’s Kounotori (White Stork) 5 cargo ship was unberthed by the station crew on Sept. 28, 2015, and sent on a path that will lead to its destructive atmospheric re-entry over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren commanded the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the spacecraft at 11:53 a.m. CDT (16:53 p.m. GMT). Ten minutes later, the cargo ship executed a thruster firing that pushed it away from the space station and into an orbit that would be ideal for its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.   More



(Source: Space Flight Insider - Sep 29)

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