H-IIB launched the HTV-4 (Kounotori 4) cargo spacecraft to the ISS with 5,400 kg of supplies, including Kirobo, Japan's talking robot astronaut companion for commander Koichi Wakata; berthing completed on 9 August 2013.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.5 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 2013, 19:48 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2013-040
- Launches in 2013
- 42nd of 81
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