NASA TV To Broadcast Japanese Cargo Craft Flight To Space Station

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Jan. 18, 2011

Michael Curie 
Headquarters, Washington      
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Kelly Humphries 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-009

NASA TV TO BROADCAST JAPANESE CARGO CRAFT FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION

HOUSTON -- NASA plans live television coverage of the launch, grapple 
and berthing of the second unpiloted Japanese cargo ship that will 
deliver more than four tons of food and supplies to the International 
Space Station. 

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch 
an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan 
at 12:29 a.m. CST (3:29 p.m. Japan time) on Thursday, Jan. 20. The 
launch vehicle will send the Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) 
into orbit on a week-long rendezvous with the station. "Kounotori" is 
the Japanese word for white stork, emblematic of delivering happiness 
and joy. 

On Jan. 27, Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo 
Nespoli will command the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to reach 
out, grapple Kounotori2, and attach it to the Earth-facing port of 
the Harmony module. 

In the following days, a pallet loaded with spare station parts will 
be extracted from a slot in the cargo ship and attached to an 
experiment platform outside the Japanese Kibo module. Other cargo 
will be transferred internally to the station. 

The cargo vehicle will be filled with trash, detached from the station 
and sent to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of March. 

NASA Television's programming schedule for HTV2 events includes (all 
times CST): 

Thursday, Jan. 20: 

12 a.m. --  Launch coverage, anchored from NASA's Johnson Space Center 
in Houston, begins. Launch is scheduled at 12:29 a.m. 
Thursday, Jan. 27: 

5 a.m. --  Grapple coverage, anchored from Johnson, begins. The 
grapple of HTV2 is scheduled at 5:44 a.m. 

8 a.m. --  Berthing coverage, anchored from Johnson, begins. The 
attachment should be complete at approximately 10 a.m. 

For more information about Kounotori2 and the H-IIB launch vehicle, 
visit: 



http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/h2bf2/index_e.html 


For more information about the International Space Station, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/station 


For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit: 




http://www.nasa.gov/ntv   

	
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