JAXA's HTV-8 (Kounotori 8) cargo mission delivered about 5,300 kg of supplies to the ISS, including six lithium-ion batteries to replace aging nickel-hydrogen batteries on the station's port truss. Launched from Tanegashima after a pad fire forced a two-week delay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.8 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 2019, 16:05 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2019-062
- Launches in 2019
- 67th of 102
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