The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, unveiled on Tuesday a compact recovery capsule that brought back experiment samples from the International Space Station earlier this month.

“Everything went smoothly as planned,” Kota Tanabe, a JAXA official in charge of developing the capsule, told a press conference at the government-affiliated agency’s Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, highlighting the success of the project to retrieve the samples using the capsule.

“I’d like to give over 100 points” for the project, he added.

The cone-shaped capsule has a maximum diameter of 84 centimeters and stands some 66 centimeters tall.

The base of the capsule, which protected its content from the heat of nearly 2,000 C when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere, is scorched and gives off a smell similar to melted resin.

The capsule was delivered to the ISS on the Kounotori 7 unmanned cargo spacecraft in late September.

Together with the Kounotori 7, the capsule was detached from the ISS on Nov. 8 after astronauts loaded protein and other test samples onto the device.

On Nov. 11, the capsule broke off from the Kounotori 7 and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

It landed in waters near Minamitorishima, a Pacific island some 1,800 kilometers from Tokyo, and was retrieved by JAXA.Speech