Kounotori 5

Kounotori 5
Mission type ISS resupply
Operator JAXA
COSPAR ID 2015-038A
SATCAT № 40873
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type HTV
Manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Start of mission
Launch date 19 August 2015, 11:50:49 (2015-08-19UTC11:50:49Z) UTC
Rocket H-IIB
Launch site Tanegashima Y2
Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
End of mission
Disposal Deorbited
Decay date 29 September 2015, 20:33 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 400 kilometres (250 mi)[1]
Apogee 402 kilometres (250 mi)[1]
Inclination 51.65 degrees[1]
Period 92.58 minutes[1]
Epoch 24 August 2015, 11:32:20 UTC[1]
Berthing at ISS
Berthing port Harmony nadir
RMS capture 24 August 2015, 10:28 UTC
Berthing date 24 August 2015, 17:28 UTC[2]
Unberthing date 28 September 2015, 11:12 UTC
RMS release 28 September 2015, 16:53 UTC
Time berthed 34 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes
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Kounotori 5, also known as HTV-5, is the fifth flight of the H-II Transfer Vehicle, an uncrewed cargo spacecraft launched to resupply the International Space Station. It was launched on August 19, 2015.

Specifications

Major changes of Kounotori 5 from previous Kounotori are:[3]

When approaching to ISS, previous missions were held at Approach Initiation (AI) point at 5 km behind the ISS for system checkout, but Kounotori 5 was changed to continue the approach without holding, to simplify the operation.[3]

Cargo

Kounotori 5 was planned to carry about 5.5 tonnes cargo, consisting of 4.5 t in the pressurised compartment and 1 t in the unpressurised compartment.[3][7] Due primarily to the launch failure of SpaceX CRS-7, additional 0.2 tonnes were added as the late access cargo. Total cargo weight was 6,057 kg.[8]

Pressurised cargo include[3][9] potable water (600 liter), food, crew commodities, system components, and science experiment equipments. System components include: UPA Fluids Control and Pump Assembly (FCPA), WPA Multifiltration Beds (WFB), a galley rack to be placed in Unity, and Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER). Science experiment equipments include Mouse Habitat Unit (MHU), Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF), Multi-Purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR-2), Exposed Experiment Handrail Attachment Mechanism (ExHAM 2), NanoRacks External Platform (NREP), and CubeSats (SERPENS, S-CUBE, fourteen Flock-2b,[10] AAUSAT5, and GOMX-3).

Unpressurised cargo consists of the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET).[3]

Originally a NASA unpressurised cargo was planned, but it was canceled.[11]

On departure from ISS, unpressured cargo bay will carry Multi-mission Consolidated Equipment (MCE), Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES), and a NASA experiment module Space Test Program Houston 4 (STP-H4), to dispose by destructive reentry to Earth atmosphere.[3]

Operation

Launch and rendezvous with the ISS

It was originally planned for launch in 2014 but was later postponed due to delay in the construction and qualification testing of payload to fly on the capsule.[12]

In June 2015, it was scheduled to be launched at around 13:01 UTC on August 16, 2015.[13]

Due to the bad weather forecast, on August 14 the launch was postponed to August 17,[14] and then on August 16 it was postponed again to August 19.[15]

Kounotori 5 was successfully launched with a H-IIB carrier rocket flying from pad 2 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima at 11:50:49 UTC on 19 August 2015.[16] Communication and three-axis attitude controls were established shortly after the launch.[17] Phase Maneuver was performed by 19:25 UTC on August 20,[18] and the first Height Adjustment Maneuver by 17:55 UTC on August 22.[19] The second and third Height Adjustment Maneuver were performed by 03:07 and 06:12 UTC on August 24, respectively.[20][21]

The ISS's robotic arm SSRMS grappled Kounotori 5 at 10:29 UTC on 24 Aug 2015, and fastened to ISS's CBM at 14:58 UTC on 24 Aug 2015. All berthing operations were completed at 17:28 UTC on 24 Aug 2015.[22]

Operation while berthed to ISS

From 02:27 UTC on August 25, the Exposed Pallet (EP), which is carrying CALET, was extracted from Kounotori 5's Unpressurized Logistics Carrier (ULC) by the ground-controlled SSRMS, and handed off to the Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS), which is also remote-controlled from ground. The JEMRMS then attached the palette to the JEM Exposed Facility (EF).[23][24] Later, at 14:29 UTC on the same day, CALET was removed from the palette and installed to the Exposed Facility by the JEMRMS.[25]

The ISS crew opened the hatch of the Kounotori's Common Berthing Mechanism and entered to Pressurized Logistics Carrier at 10:24 UTC on 25 Aug 2015[23] and began transferring the cargo.

Departure from ISS and reentry to earth atmosphere

Kounotori 5 was unberthed from the CBM at 11:12, 28 September 2015 UTC by SSRMS robotic arm and moved to the release position. The first attempt of the release at 15:20 UTC was aborted due to an anomaly of the SSRMS.[26] After one ISS orbit, Kounotori 5 was released from the SSRMS at 16:53, 28 September 2015 UTC, Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA, backed up by NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren, commanded the SSRMS.

After the orbit control maneuvers, Kounotori 5 reentered to the Earth atmosphere over the southern pacific ocean around 20:33, 29 September 2015 UTC.[27]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "HTV-5 Satellite details 2015-038A NORAD 40873". N2YO. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "ISS Crew Concludes KOUNOTORI5 Berthing Operations". JAXA. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 宇宙ステーション補給機「こうのとり」5号機(HTV5)ミッションプレスキット (PDF) (in Japanese). JAXA. August 21, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kawasaki, Osamu; Tsujita, Daisuke; Ichikawa, Chiaki (March 2013). HTV電力系の軌道上運用による設計評価と高度化検討 [Evaluation of HTV Electrical Power System and Design Improvement by On-orbit Operation compared with Simulation]. 32nd ISAS Space Energy Symposium (in Japanese). ISAS/JAXA. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ No.1865 :「こうのとり」５号機の機体公開. Space Authors Club (in Japanese). July 1, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Demonstration Experiment of Space Debris Sensor on HTV-5" (PDF). Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ Wall, Mike (August 18, 2015). "Japanese Supply Ship to Launch Toward Space Station: How to Watch Live". space.com.
  8. ↑ JAXA (July 31, 2015). 「こうのとり」（HTV）5号機の搭載物変更について (PDF) (in Japanese). Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Dunn, Andrea (August 15, 2015). "Stork Set to Make Special Space Station Delivery". www.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Holm, Rachel (August 13, 2015). "Kounotori "White Stork" to Carry 14 Doves to ISS". Planet Pulse. Planet Labs. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ 宇宙ステーション補給機「こうのとり」5号機（HTV5）の接近・係留・離脱フェーズに係る安全検証結果について (PDF) (in Japanese). JAXA. June 9, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ 無人輸送機「こうのとり」打ち上げ先送り　積み荷準備遅れ (in Japanese). Nikkei. August 5, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Launch of the H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI5" (HTV5) aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 5". JAXA. June 9, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Launch Postponement of H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 5 with H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI5" (HTV5) Onboard". JAXA. August 14, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Launch Postponement of H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 5 with H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI5" (HTV5) Onboard". JAXA. August 16, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Launch Success of H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI5" (HTV5) by H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 5". JAXA. August 19, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  17. ↑ "KOUNOTORI5 Establishes Three-Axis Attitude". JAXA. August 19, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  18. ↑ "KOUNOTORI5 Completes the First Phase Maneuver". JAXA. August 20, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  19. ↑ "KOUNOTORI5 Completes the First Height Adjustment Maneuver". JAXA. August 24, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  20. ↑ "KOUNOTORI5 Completes the Second Height Adjustment Maneuver". JAXA. August 24, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  21. ↑ "KOUNOTORI5 Completes the Third Height Adjustment Maneuver". JAXA. August 24, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  22. ↑ "ISS Crew Concludes KOUNOTORI5 Berthing Operations". JAXA. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  23. 1 2 "Transfer of the Exposed Pallet (EP) was Completed. Crew entered KOUNOTORI5.". JAXA. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  24. ↑ "ISS Daily Summary Report – 08/25/15". ISS On-Orbit Status Report. NASA. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  25. ↑ "CALET installation completed". JAXA. August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  26. ↑ "ISS Daily Summary Report – 09/28/15". NASA. September 28, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  27. ↑ "Successful re-entry of H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI5" (HTV5)". JAXA. September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.

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