The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has unveiled the Kounotori 7 unmanned cargo transporter, which is scheduled to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 11.
The cargo ship will be loaded onto the Japan-made H-2B large rocket, and carry about 6.2 tons of food, clothing and other daily commodities to the astronauts at the International Space Station.
The cylinder-shaped Kounotori is about 10 meters long and 4.4 meters in diameter. It is the same type as its predecessor, the Kounotori 6.
The Kounotori will also carry a small capsule designed to collect test samples, the first of its kind, and bring protein crystals and other materials back to Earth from the ISS.
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