Launched the Kounotori 5 (HTV-5) cargo spacecraft from Tanegashima carrying over 4.5 tons of supplies, water, and experiment hardware to resupply the International Space Station's six-person crew.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 21.5 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 2015, 11:50 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2015-038
- Launches in 2015
- 41st of 87
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