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Jules Verne receives go for next step
 
30 March 2008

Artist's impression of ESA's ATV
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The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is the first fully automatic re-supply spacecraft of its kind. ESA's Jules Verne ATV is the first European space supplier for the ISS. It was launched 9 March 2008 from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

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View inside the ATV Control Centre
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View inside the ATV Control Centre, in Toulouse, France, during Demonstration Day 1 (29 March 2008).

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