{"id":96796,"date":"2019-09-29T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/unpiloted-japanese-cargo-ship-delivers-fresh-batteries-and-more-to-space-station"},"modified":"2019-09-29T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T14:04:00","slug":"unpiloted-japanese-cargo-ship-delivers-fresh-batteries-and-more-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/unpiloted-japanese-cargo-ship-delivers-fresh-batteries-and-more-to-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Unpiloted Japanese Cargo Ship Delivers Fresh Batteries and More to Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unpiloted-japanese-cargo-ship-delivers-fresh-batteries-and-more-to-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A robotic Japanese cargo ship successfully arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\">International Space Station<\/a> Saturday (Sept. 28) carrying more than 4 tons of supplies, including new batteries for the outpost\u2019s solar power grid.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/japan-launches-htv-8-space-station-cargo-ship.html\">HTV-8 cargo ship<\/a> pulled up to the space station at 7:12 a.m. EDT (1112 GMT), where it was captured by a robotic arm wielded by NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/christina-koch-year-in-space-science.html\">Christina Koch<\/a> inside the orbiting lab. The station and HTV-8, also known as Kounotori 8 (Kounotori means \u201cwhite stork\u201d in Japanese), were soaring 262 miles (422 kilometers) over Angola in southern Africa at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you all have done is a testament to what we can accomplish when international teams work together towards a common goal,\u201d Koch radioed to NASA\u2019s Mission Control in Houston and flight controllers at JAXA\u2019s Tsukuba Space Center in Japan. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to have Kounotori on board, and look forward to a successful and productive mission together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robotic Japanese cargo ship successfully arrived at the International Space Station Saturday (Sept. 28) carrying more than 4 tons of supplies, including new batteries for the outpost\u2019s solar power grid. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) HTV-8 cargo ship pulled up to the space station at 7:12 a.m. EDT (1112 GMT), where it was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,8,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}