The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)s H-IIB rocket launched at 7:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 19 from the Tanegashima Space Center in .\rbr\rbrThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)s H-IIB rocket launched at 7:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 19 from the Tanegashima Space Center in .\rbr\rbrOn August 19, 2015 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the Kounotori-5 HTV spacecraft to the International Space Station atop a Mitsubishi .\rbr\rbr\rbr\rbrThe unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 61 resupply ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 1 on a four-orbit, six-hour journey to deliver .