Launched Kounotori 7 (HTV-7), Japan's seventh H-II Transfer Vehicle cargo run to the ISS, delivering about 6,200 kg of supplies and testing a small re-entry capsule that later returned samples to Earth, a first for a Japanese spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.8 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 2018, 17:52 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2018-073
- Launches in 2018
- 73rd of 114
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