H-II Transfer Vehicle

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What Wikipedia says

The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), also called Kounotori (Japanese: こうのとり; lit. 'white stork'), was an expendable Japanese automated cargo spacecraft designed for International Space Station (ISS) resupply missions, particularly Kibō, the Japanese laboratory module.

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