ESA - ATV - Europe launches its first resupply ship to the ISS

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Europe launches its first resupply ship to the ISS

9 March 2008

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Replay of Ariane 5 ES-ATV launch. Launch of Jules Verne ATV from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff occurred at 05:03 CET (04:03 UT) on 9 March 2008.

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The most complex European spacecraft ever

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Jean-François Clervoy, ESA astronaut and senior advisor to the ATV project, talks us through Jules Verne ATV solar array deployment. The solar arrays successfully deployed over 90 minutes after launch from Kourou, French Guiana.

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Another ESA contribution to ISS co-ownership

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ATV moved to the Final Assembly Building

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Jules Verne ATV is moved inside a special container (the CCU) to the Final Assembly Building (BAF) at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where the spacecraft will be finally integrated with the launcher. The Ariane 5 ES will lift ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) into orbit. ATV will bring new supplies to the International Space Station. It will also be used to reboost the Station's orbit. (14 February 2008)

Credits: 2008 - ESA /CNES/Arianespace/Photo optique video du CSG

Only the beginning

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Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS-122 and Expedition 16 crews concluded almost nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:24 CET on 18 February 2008.

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Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General

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Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, addresses audience at Guiana Space Centre, in Kourou, French Guiana, following the successful launch of Jules Verne ATV, ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle. Liftoff was at 05:03 CET (04:03 UT) on Sunday 9 March 2008.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja 2008

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