Tokyo, Aug. 22 (Jiji Press)-The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Friday that it will launch the first HTV-X new resupply vehicle to the International Space Station at around 10:58 a.m. on Oct. 21 [[1]]. The new vehicle is scheduled to be launched on the seventh H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima [[2]]. It is a successor to the HTV, or Kounotori, which carried out nine missions until 2020. The new vehicle is about 8 meters long and can carry approximately 5.8 tons of cargo, up from about 4 tons with Kounotori [[2]].Kounotori was launched on an H-2B rocket, an enhanced version of the H-2A rocket, due to its heavier weight compared with a regular satellite. For the seventh H3 rocket,the number of solid rocket boosters will increase to four from two used in the first to fifth H3 rockets [[2]]. In addition, JAXA plans to launch the sixth H3 rocket without SRBs by march 2026 [[2]].
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