{"id":255591,"date":"2016-12-14T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8efe2ef99edd64573341e85c33c129e0"},"modified":"2016-12-14T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:51:00","slug":"htv-arrival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=255591","title":{"rendered":"HTV arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/12\/htv_arrival\/16578561-2-eng-GB\/HTV_arrival_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured and berthed Japan\u2019s HTV-6 supply craft on 14 December using the International Space Station\u2019s 17 m-long Canadarm2 robotic arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV, is also called Kounotori \u2013 Japanese for \u2018white stork\u2019. The sixth craft in the series, it was launched from Japan\u2019s Tanegashima spaceport on 9 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSetting up a temporary robotics workstation in the Station\u2019s Cupola observatory module, the astronauts monitored the approaching six-tonne craft until it stopped 10 m from the Station. Working two joysticks, Shane moved Canadarm2 to grasp HTV-6 before berthed it at the Station\u2019s Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe six astronauts on the Space Station have already started unloading the four tonnes of supplies, including food, equipment and new batteries to store solar-generated electricity.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee more photos on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thom_astro\/\">Thomas\u2019 Flickr page<\/a>&nbsp;and follow his training and spaceflight first-hand on social media:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\">thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/12\/htv_arrival\/16578561-2-eng-GB\/HTV_arrival_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nNASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured and berthed Japan&rsquo;s HTV-6 supply craft on 14 December using the International Space Station&rsquo;s 17 m-long Canadarm2 robotic arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV, is also called Kounotori &ndash; Japanese for &lsquo;white stork&rsquo;. The sixth craft in the series, it was launched from Japan&rsquo;s Tanegashima spaceport on 9 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSetting up a temporary robotics workstation in the Station&rsquo;s Cupola observatory module, the astronauts monitored the approaching six-tonne craft until it stopped 10 m from the Station. Working two joysticks, Shane moved Canadarm2 to grasp HTV-6 before berthed it at the Station&rsquo;s Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe six astronauts on the Space Station have already started unloading the four tonnes of supplies, including food, equipment and new batteries to store solar-generated electricity.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee more photos on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thom_astro\/\">Thomas&rsquo; Flickr page<\/a>&nbsp;and follow his training and spaceflight first-hand on social media:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\">thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255592,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255591\/revisions\/255592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}