H-ii Transfer Vehicle

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The H-II Transfer Vehicle, nicknamed Kounotori, is an unmanned resupply spacecraft used to resupply the Kib Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and the rest of the International Space Station (ISS). The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been working on the design since the early 1990s. The first mission, HTV-1, was originally intended to be launched in 2001. It lifted- off at 17:01 UTC on 10 September 2009 on an H-IIB launch vehicle.