HTV
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The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), also known as Kounotori, is a Japanese expendable cargo spacecraft that can carry up to 6,000 kg of supplies to the ISS, particularly the station's Kibō module. It was launched nine times from 2009 to 2020. A successor spacecraft, the HTV-X, is in active development
NOTES:
- The default Go-to Object will take you to the ISS itself. Refer to the dates given on the Table below on when the nine HTV missions can be viewed on Celestia
- Requires the International Space Station addon installed for this to fully work on Celestia
| H-II Transfer Vehicle (2009-2020) |
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| Mission | Start | End |
| HTV-1 | 2009-Sept-10 | 2009-Nov-1 |
| HTV-2 | 2011-Jan-22 | 2011-Mar-30 |
| HTV-3 | 2012-Jul-21 | 2012-Sept-14 |
| HTV-4 | 2013-Aug-3 | 2013-Sept-7 |
| HTV-5 | 2015-Aug-19 | 2015-Sept-29 |
| HTV-6 | 2016-Dec-9 | 2017-Feb-5 |
| HTV-7 | 2018-Sept-22 | 2018-Nov-10 |
| HTV-8 | 2019-Sept-24 | 2019-Nov-3 |
| HTV-9 | 2020-May-20 | 2020-Aug-20 |
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