NASA TV to Broadcast Cargo Ship Departure from Space Station

Five weeks after delivering approximately five tons of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station, an unpiloted Japanese cargo ship is scheduled to depart the station Monday, Sept. 28. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure beginning at 11 a.m. EDT. Robotic flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will begin preparing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) H-II Transport Vehicle-5 (HTV-5) for unberthing from its port on the station's Harmony module several hours before its release. Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA, backed up by NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren, will command the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to release HTV-5, loaded with station trash at about 11:20 a.m. A few hours after its release, the cargo ship will fire its engines to begin a controlled deorbit and entry through Earth's atmosphere, where it will burn up over the Pacific Ocean. More

(Source: PR Newswire - Sep 23)