Updates ISS HTV "Kounotori" flights updates

[Cosmic Penguin]

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Various info about the launch:

Launch Vehicle:

The 5th flight of the H-IIB Launch Vehicle (H-IIB F5) has four solid rocket boosters (SRB-As) attached. The 5S-H (5.4 m in diameter) type fairing is used.

Live coverage of the launch:

• (starts at 11:00 UTC / 7:00 am EDT)
  
  
• NASA TV (starts at 11:00 UTC / 7:00 am EDT)

Weather Forecast for Tanegashima Airport, Japan on August 19, 2015 (9 p.m.)

Generally fair. Low 24C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h.

Time|Temps|Dew Point|Relative Humidity|Precip|Snow|Cloud cover|Pressure|Wind|Weather
9 PM|26°C|24°C|89%|5%|0%|16%|1012 hPa|6 km/h SE|

Clear

Launch Sequence:

{colsp=2} Event | Time [mm:ss] | Altitude [km] | Inertial speed [km/s]

1.​

|Liftoff|

0:00​

|

0​

|

0.4​

2.​

|Solid rocket booster burnout*|

1:54​

|

53​

|

1.9​

3.​

|Solid rocket booster pair 1 jettison**|

2:04​

|

61​

|

1.9​

4.​

|Solid rocket booster pair 2 jettison**|

2:07​

|

63​

|

1.9​

5.​

|Payload fairing jettison|

3:40​

|

120​

|

2.9​

6.​

|1st stage engine (main engine) cutoff (MECO)|

5:47​

|

184​

|

5.6​

7.​

|1st and 2nd stages separation|

5:54​

|

189​

|

5.6​

8.​

|2nd stage ignition (SEIG)|

6:01​

|

194​

|

5.6​

9.​

|2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)|

14:20​

|

289​

|

7.7​

10.​

|HTV-5 separation|

15:11​

|

287​

|

7.7​

*) Moment of combustion pressure reaching 2% of maximum
**) Thrust strut cutoff​

The current view on Tanegashima Space Center (webcam). *

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[Cosmic Penguin]

Some photos from the gorgeous roll-out of the H-IIB rocket at sunrise half a day ago:

T-2.5 hours and counting.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

T-12 minutes and about to enter final countdown.

 

[Pipcard]

Almost ready for launch!

Lift-off has occurred!

SRB-A jettison.

Payload fairing jettison.

First stage cut-off, stage separation, and second stage ignition.

Second stage cut-off.

Successful separation at 286.8 km.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

The whole webcast has been archived on the link 2 posts above, but here's the main part:

I'm pretty sure every one here can now breathe easier now since many of the emergency cargo loads added following the latest knock downs of the other ISS supply lines has been loaded onto HTV-5. :jiggy:

Arrival at the ISS is scheduled at around 10:55 UTC on August 24.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

HTV-5 is now just meters away from the ISS with capture scheduled at around 10:30 UTC. Turn on NASA TV if you want to see it! :tiphat:

 

[N_Molson]

Done, from NASA website :

Using the International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2, Expedition 44 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully captured JAXA’s Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) at 6:28 a.m. EDT. The space station crew and the robotics officer in mission control in Houston will position HTV-5 for berthing to the orbiting laboratory’s Earth-facing port of the Harmony module.

NASA TV coverage of the berthing will begin at 9:15 a.m. The installation process to berth HTV-5 to the space station is scheduled to begin at about 9:45 a.m. The Japanese cargo ship, whose name means “white stork” and was chosen because it is emblematic of an important delivery, is loaded with about 4-and-a-half tons of research and supplies.

Follow the conversation on Twitter via @Space_Station and the hashtag #HTV5.

 

[Ripley]

This page is killing my pc. Too many heavy pics...yet so gorgeous!

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

This page is killing my pc. Too many heavy pics...yet so gorgeous!

Sorry about that....I didn't have the time to miniaturize them. :facepalm:

 

[kuddel]

This page is killing my pc. Too many heavy pics...yet so gorgeous!

Sorry about that....I didn't have the time to miniaturize them.

I too hope that soon there will be Page 3, so the loading time for new thread entries will be less then 5 minutes

See this post as my little contribution to this.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Some glorious photos of HTV-5 arriving at the ISS:

 

[Donamy]

That last one is the best, with the Aurora Borealis in the background.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

The time has come for HTV-5 to leave the ISS - in 20 minutes time from now it will be released from the SSRMS.

Tune in to NASA TV if you want to see this!

 

[DaveS]

The release of HTV-5 has been delayed for one orbit due to problems with the SSRMS. The SSRMS encountered a safing event during the release and engineers on the ground are currently analyzing the downlinked data from the system to see if a fix or workaround can be developed. The next release window opens at 12:41 pm EDT (1641 UTC), with NASA TV coverage starting at 12:35 pm EDT (1635 UTC).