The H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori 9 (HTV-9) launched atop Japan's final H-IIB rocket from Tanegashima, delivering roughly 6,200 kg of cargo to the ISS, including new lithium-ion battery replacement units, in the last flight of the original HTV program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.9 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 9 H-IIB 304 flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 2020, 17:31 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIB 304
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2020-030
- Launches in 2020
- 33rd of 114
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