Japan's HTV-X cargo transporter reenters atmosphere, likely burns up

TOKYO - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's HTV-X cargo transporter reentered the atmosphere and likely burned up over the South Pacific on Tuesday, an agency official said, ending its mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station and support scientific experiments while orbiting Earth.

The vehicle, the first of the HTV-X generation developed by JAXA, contained trash from the ISS astronauts' daily lives and experiments and was intended to burn up while traveling through the atmosphere, according to the agency.