Science and Exploration

This Week at NASA: HTV-5 Cargo Mission, Hubble’s Double Black Hole and More

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
August 30, 2015
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This Week at NASA: HTV-5 Cargo Mission, Hubble’s Double Black Hole and More
This Week at NASA.
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It was a busy week for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s fifth H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-5 arrived on Aug. 24 with more than 8,000 pounds of equipment, supplies and experiments in its pressurized cargo compartment.
The delivery included an investigation that will search for signatures of dark matter, as well as enough additional food and supplies to last through 2015. Also, Soyuz relocated to Zvezda, Orion parachute drop test, Rising Seas, Hurricane Katrina remembrance, Tail first crash test, Webb telescope’s backplane arrives and Hubble’s double black hole.

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