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  • Japan's HTV spacecraft follow-on: HTV-R(eturnable)

    Now that JAXA has announced the coming end if the existing HTV cargo carrier for ISS program they're working on the next phase: HTV-R (HTV-Returnable), which would be capable of ISS cargo return instead of being disposable.

    Take a close look at the new alternative layout - we've seen this layout before (SpaceX's Dragon)

    Makes one wonder if they chose this configuration because it's pretty much shown bootstrap-able into a crewed configuration.

    Concept PDF: http://archive.ists.or.jp/upload_pdf/2013-g-16.pdf

    HTV-R concept




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