 | | | | |
| | | | | |
|
Flight plan ATV mission conceptATV flight phasesATV cargo capacitySpacecraft ATV configurationATV Integrated Cargo CarrierATV Service ModuleATV evolutionATV Missions ATV-1: Jules VerneATV-2: Johannes KeplerATV-3: Edoardo AmaldiATV-4: Albert EinsteinOperations Flight operationsATV Control CentreCrew roleIndustry ESA's roleEuropean industryDownloads ATV Edoardo Amaldi factsheet (pdf)ATV Edoardo Amaldi info kit English (pdf)ATV Edoardo Amaldi info kit German (pdf)ATV Edoardo Amaldi info kit French (pdf)ATV Edoardo Amaldi info kit Italian (pdf)ATV: Servicing the International Space Station (pdf)Multimedia gallery ATV image galleryATV video galleryServices
| | | | | | | | Article Images |  |
Jules Verne on track for long journey to ISS
11 March 2008
| 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.
Credits: ESA - D.Ducros | |  |  | |
| | | | | Liftoff of the Ariane 5 ES-ATV launcher from the Ariane Launch Complex no.3 (ELA-3) at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana, on 9 March 2008. On board is Jules Verne ATV, ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle.
Credits: ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE - Activité Photo Optique Video CSG | | | | |
| | | | | Animation illustrating the mission scenario for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). ATV launches from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The 20.7 tonne ATV is well protected at the top of Ariane 5 during a three-minute high-pressure aerodynamic ascent. 100 minutes after lift-off, the ATV becomes a fully automatic spaceship navigating towards the International Space Station (ISS). The ATV uses its eye-like rendezvous sensors to dock precisely and safely with the ISS. ATV becomes an extension of the Station. The 45 m³ pressurised module delivers up to 7.2 tonnes of equipment, fuel, food, water and air for the crew. ATV uses up to 4.7 tonnes of propellant to raise the ISS altitude which naturally decreases with the residual atmospheric drag. After 6 months, ATV, loaded with 6.5 tonnes of waste, separates from ISS and fully burns out during a guided and controlled re-entry high over the Pacific Ocean.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| |
| | Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) ATV Blog Related articles Jules Verne ATV under control after a textbook launchEurope launches its first resupply ship to the ISSReplay of launch and solar array opening of Jules Verne ATVA dedicated Ariane 5 to launch Jules VerneJules Verne ATV atop launcherRelated links International Space StationESA Spacecraft Operations Related ESApod
|
HI-RES JPEG (Size: 
HI-RES JPEG (Size: 
MOV (Size: