Mitsubishi Heavy and JAXA are now considering launching the rocket around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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Japan is all set to launch a robotic cargo ship to the global Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday after a 3-day delay.
Unless the weather improves by then, the Japanese cargo craft will remain grounded for a few more days.
Science experiments, including a mouse habitat and an externally-mounted cosmic ray telescope, are also manifested on the HTV.
The supply ship carries a new kitchen galley, a package of CubeSats for deployment from the space station, a furnace to help study high-temperature melts in microgravity, and hardware for spacesuits.
Japan’s fifth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) will take a five day trip to the station after its launch. Kounotori 5 is for supplying observation equipment and other items to the worldwide Space Station.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is all set to launch the twice-postponed cargo mission to global Space station onboard its H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV)-5 in less than 6 hours from now on Wednesday, August 19 at 7:50 am local time. It will arrive early Monday morning when it will be captured with the Canadarm2 and berthed to the Harmony module.
