On September 29, 2015 the Japanese HTV "Kounotori-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere at 20:33 UTC. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the Pacific at about 21:00 UTC. The "Kounotori-5” successfully completed 42 days of cargo supply mission to the ISS.

On September 28, 2015 the Japanese "HTV Kounotori-5” unmanned supply spacecraft departed the International Space Station. First HTV-5 was disengaged with the space station's robotic arm from a docking port on the Harmony module. At 16:53 UTC the spacecraft was released by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. The HTV-5 will be deorbited on September 30, 2015.

On September 12 at 00:51 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-16M” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of 146 kilometers south-east from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the crew of 3 members: Russian cosmonaut Gennadiy Padalka a member of Expedition 44; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakhstan cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov both the members of Guest Expedition 18.

Gennadiy Padalka spent in space 168 days 05 hours 08 minutes and 37 seconds. Andreas Mogensen and Aidyn Aimbetov spent in space 9 days 20 hours 13 minutes and 51 seconds. Six other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Volkov; American astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren as well as Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui remained in orbit aboard the International Space S ... Read more »

On September 11, 2015 at 21:29 UTC (on September 12 at 00:29 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-16M” spacecraft undocked from the "Zvezda” module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the crew of 3 cosmonauts: Russian cosmonaut Gennadiy Padalka a member of Expedition 44; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakhstan cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov both the members of Guest Expedition 18.

On September 04, 2015 at 07:39 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-18M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Poisk” (MIM-2) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime. The Soyuz TMA-18M delivered three new members of Expedition 45 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakhstan cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov. The new comers joined current ISS expedition members – Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Oleg Kononenko; American astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren; Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (油井 亀美也) to form the station’s crew of 9 members (so-called Expedition 44 and a half). When on September 12, 2015 Gennadiy Padalka, Andreas Mogensen and Aidyn Aimbetov return to Earth, the 6 others (Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Volkov, Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui) will form Expedition 45 crew. ... Read more »

On September 02, 2015 at 04:37 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-18M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov (center); flight-engineer-1, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen (right); flight-engineer-2, Kazakhstan cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov (left).

Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.

The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on September 4. Volkov, Mogensen and Aimbetov will join current ISS expedition members Padalka, Kornienko, Kell ... Read more »

On August 28, 2015 the "Soyuz TMA-16M” spacecraft was redocked from the "Poisk” (MIM-2) module to the "Zvezda” module of the International Space Station. The operation was carried out manually by Soyuz commander, Russian cosmonaut Gennadiy Padalka. During the redocking the crew also consisted of Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and American astronauts Scott Kelly. Three other crew members – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (油井 亀美也) and American astronaut Kjell Lindgren - were in the station following the redocking operation. The Soyuz TMA-16M undocked from the station at 07:12 UTC. The redocking mission lasted 18 minutes. At 07:30 UTC the spacecraft docked to the docking port of the "Zvezda” module. The docking port of the "Poisk” module is to be occupied by the Soyuz TMA-18M manned spacecraft, which is scheduled for lau ... Read more »

On August 24, 2015 at 14:58 UTC the 5^th Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV "Kounotori-5”) was installed on its berthing port of the "Harmony” module of the International Space Station. Earlier at the same day, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui took control of the space station’s robotic arm and latched on to the free-floating HTV-5 supply ship at 10:28 UTC.

On August 19, 2015 at 11:50 UTC the Japanese HTV-5 (H-2 Transfer Vehicle) unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Tanegashima Cosmodrome situated at the island located 115 km south of Kyushu. Kyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. The spacecraft was orbited by the Japanese H-2B rocket-carrier. The mission is Japan's fifth cargo delivery flight to the International Space station. The HTV 5 mission is also named Kounotori 5. Kounotori is the Japanese word for white stork. The spacecraft is to deliver about 6000 kilograms of cargo to the station’s crew.

On August 14, 2015 at 10:18 UTC the “Progress M-26M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian “Zvezda” (Star) module of the International Space Station. Several hours later the “Progress M-26M” spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 14:17 UTC.