good catch....
over western Romania

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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Grapple confirmed! Good capture.

Congratulations, JAXA. Well done.

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They caught the bugger! Someone turn up the cameras. It's all dark outside.

They're rigidising the snares around the grapple fixture... whatever that means.

well done you too slang...
good pictures...thaaaanks

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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

It's interesting to look at the way the astronauts move around. They clearly keep a sense of up and down in their motions to prevent disorientation. They also move quite slowly, presumably like the way we instinctively move more slowly over a wet, slippery floor.

well said, SfN:

1956 GMT (3:56 p.m. EDT; 4:56 a.m. JST)
"It's a real example of international cooperation with a Japanese vehicle captured by a Canadian arm with American and European astronauts and a safety guy from Canada and under the command of a Russian commander," station flight engineer Frank De Winne, a Belgian, just said from aboard the complex.

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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Thanks, mahesh. I discovered the ctrl-alt-s shortcut in the VLC media player

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I love the ISS...

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IEEE: Canadarm - SRMS Technical Details

NASA (Grades K-4): The Canadian Crane



LE BRAS TELEMANIPULATEUR RMS (French Language, but some good closeup images and illustrations)

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great news, congrats to the JAXA team! Hopefully we will see more of Japan in the space

In a similar vein...IIRC, a few years ago, about the time, the World Rugby Cup games being hosted in Australia...2003...

An IHT sports correspondent reflected an image he had, in his reportage.
(This is after, Scotland and Japan and a hundred other teams, had been knocked out of the competition...)

He mentioned that, at the finals twixt Aus / Eng, one of the enduring sights he recalls... outside the main stadium gates, he saw a Japanese gentleman, in full samurai regalia, pacing up and down, with bagpipes, under one of his flapping arms, giving a loud rendition of Waltzing Matilda!

Cool man!

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

quote SfN:
2226 GMT (6:26 p.m. EDT; 7:26 a.m. JST)
Second-stage capture is complete and the HTV is hard-mated to the International Space Station, beginning about six weeks of logistics transfers between the outpost and visiting freighter.

Engineers will finish activating the HTV overnight and the crew will open hatches between Harmony and the HTV and ingress the ship at about 1820 GMT (2:20 p.m. EDT) Friday.

External payload transfers are on tap for late next week.

About ten minutes to go....hope they see a bunch of flowers first

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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

NASA

Spaceflight Now: HTV cargo ship departs International Space Station

And that means HTV's fiery demise was only minutes ago...

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Bye bye!

Will it put on a good light show?

Not anymore, perhaps it did yesterday.

Great job, JAXA. IMHO a well deserved success after all the previous bad luck.

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HTV-1 Leaving the Station

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tc3l8PEf0

It was really a great mission. Hope all launches ahead will be successful as we know it's the only way to send big cargo up there after the shuttle is retired.

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It's time for track 10 on disc 2 of BSG season 4 soundtrack.

LaunchWindow...good link...thanks...
Calm before the storm (of re-entry)...

R I P HTV

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Apart from ESA's larger ATV, that is.

Don't get me wrong, I do applaud JAXA's success in this and the reassurance that there are 3 types of unmanned cargo craft from 3 different parts of the world servicing the ISS after the shuttle retires. But this forum requires nitpicking where appropriate. Well, whenever you get away with it, actually.

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Ah, but since the HTV uses the larger Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) to dock instead of the probe-and-drogue of the ATV or the APAS of the shuttle, it can carry cargo that's dimensionally larger—things like equipment racks that won't fit through the smaller docking ports and previously could only be carried on the MPLMs.

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Good point, didn't think about the size of the door. Just like that time we bought a piano...

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