JAXA's H-IIB launched the Kounotori 6 (HTV-6) cargo freighter from Tanegashima carrying supplies, new lithium-ion ISS batteries, and technology demonstrators including the KITE electrodynamic tether experiment to the International Space Station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2016, 13:26 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2016-076
- Launches in 2016
- 78th of 85
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