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Japan’s HTV-4 Cargo Ship Arrives at the International Space Station

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
August 9, 2013
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Japan’s HTV-4 Cargo Ship Arrives at the International Space Station
Japan's HTV4 arrives at the ISS.
NASA

Six days after launching from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori4 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-4), met up with The International Space Station.
It was captured by the Expedition 36 crew aboard the ISS, using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The HTV-4 was launched with more than 3 1/2 tons of cargo and experiments for delivery to the ISS.

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