Japan's HTV spacecraft launches to the ISS today.

[Streetwind]

...or so it is hoped it should have launched on Sunday already, but inclement weather has repeatedly delayed the flight. Today looks decent though.

It carries several armfuls of Dove cubesats for Planet Labs, a dark matter sensing telescope, equiment for the year-long experiment to compare astronaut Scott Kelly with his identical twin back on Earth, and the usual load of life support and supplies. The flight is also important because two out of four suppliers for the space station are currently grounded, so every successful vehicle counts for a lot.

Launch coverage begins at 11:00 UTC / 20:00 local Japanese time, three hours after the posting of this thread, on NASA TV. Launch is scheduled to occur at 11:50 UTC. As usual, it will launch from Tanegashima Space Center.

[MinimumSky5]

And we have good deployment of Kounotori, docking scheduled as planned for Monday.

[Streetwind]

Beautiful launch, good job JAXA!

[Umlüx]

somehow, the H-IIB looks really kerbal.. with its short boosters and ugly struts on the sides

[tater]

Nice, WTG!

[Ringkeeper]

somehow, the H-IIB looks really kerbal.. with its short boosters and ugly struts on the sides

http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/223187-japanese-launch-vehicles-pack-v0-40

i wonder who copied who.... the space agency the mod or the other way round