H-II Transfer Vehicle
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The H-II Transfer Vehicle, also called Kounotori, was an expendable Japanese automated cargo spacecraft designed for International Space Station resupply missions, particularly Kibō, the Japanese labo
H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-1) approaching the ISS
Structure of HTV
Inside view of the Pressurised Logistics Carrier section of HTV-1
Canadarm2 removing unpressurised payload from HTV-2
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsu
H-II Transfer Vehicle
…follow-on spacecraft design by 2022 which would accommodate a crew of three and carry up to 400 kilograms (880 lb) of cargo. As of 2014, both JAXA and Mitsubishi conducted studies of a next generation HTV as a possible Japanese contribution to the proposed international crewed outpost at Earth-Moon L2. This…
Headquarters in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
The Mitsubishi Dockyard at Nagasaki, Meiji Period
The launch of battleship Tosa at the Nagasaki Shipyard, 1921
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Yokohama, Japan