The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is an unmanned supply ship "Konomori (HTV)" Unit 7 which is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on the 11th in the H2B rocket, and it is equipped with a small capsule that can return to the Earth and return to the Earth Send it to the ISS. We plan to return experimental sample and return it, and I'd like to connect to future manned spacecraft development.
HTV has so far delivered food and clothing items to the ISS, loaded with garbage, reentered into the atmosphere and burned. It takes time and cost to rely on the United States and Russia to bring the experiment sample back to the earth.
This time JAXA made a conical (capsule) shaped capsule of 65 centimeters in length and 84 centimeters in width. Approximately 5 liters of experimental sample can be placed in a container like an internal thermos bottle. At the time of reentry, the surface temperature of the capsule reaches up to 2,000 degrees, but the inside is kept at 4 degrees.
November, with HTV I ...