LIVE: Watch Japanese Cargo Ship Leave International Space Station
NASA Television will air live the departure of a Japanese cargo ship from the International Space Station at noon Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA will use the station's robotic arm to detach the H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV)-4 from the space station's Harmony module. This will wrap up a month's stay at the orbiting laboratory, during which time more than 3.5 tons of supplies and spare parts were unloaded from the vehicle onto the space station. The departure frees up a space station docking port for the arrival of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus cargo vehicle in late September.
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NASA TV coverage will begin at 11 a.m. EDT with an expanded edition of "Space Station Live," featuring activities surrounding the HTV-4 departure.
HTV-4 launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on a Japanese H-IIB rocket Aug. 3. It arrived at the space station Aug. 9 and was installed on Harmony several hours after being grappled by Nyberg.
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For information on the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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