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Mission

Kounotori 9 (HTV-9)

Type: Resupply
Launch Cost: $112,500,000

The last H-II Transfer Vehicle “Kounotori” will be launched on an H-IIB 304 launch vehicle, carrying 6,200 kg (13,669 lbs) of supplies and science experiments to be conducted by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Kounotori 9 will be the last original HTV spacecaft : its successor scheduled to launch in February 2022 will be the first of the new HTV-X version.

Trajectory

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Location

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

88 rockets have launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Agency

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – MHI

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: MHI
  • Administration: President: Seiji Izumisawa
  • Founded: 1884
  • Launchers: H-I, H-II, H-III
  • Spacecraft: Kounotori | HTV
  • Country: JPN

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group.

MHI’s products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world’s 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.

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