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ATV Jules Verne
| | | | | Backdropped by the airglow of Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) approaches the International Space Station on Monday, 31 March, 2008, for its Demonstration Day 2 practice maneouvers.
Credits: NASA | |  |  | |
| | | | The Mission Operations Team
| Alberto Novelli, Head of ATV Mission Operations
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | Mission operations overview
| 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 | | | | |
| | | | | ATV Jules Verne is watched backing away from the International Space Station from inside the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in Toulouse, France. Europe’s first ATV undocked from the Station at 23:29 CEST (21:29 GMT) on 5 September 2008.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | For the first ATV docking, Mission Operations will pace the spacecraft through 3 stages: Demonstration Day 1, Demonstration Day 2, and final docking. At each of Demo Day 1 & 2, ATV will be commanded to perform an escape, to test and confirm that all automatic systems are working before approachuing closer than 12 m to the ISS. Points marked S-1/2 to S41 represent critical station-keeping points along the way.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | Graphic showing all the steps in the Automated Transfer Vehicle mission scenario - starting with the launch from Kourou, in French Guiana, and ending with the destructive re-entry in the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
Credits: ESA - D. Ducros | | | | |
| | | | | Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns.
This video was recorded from on board one of two aircrafts taking part in a ESA/NASA Jules Verne re-entry observing campaign. Video taken by Ed Schilling NASA AMES research center video support group.
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