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| | | | | | | Successful test of Jules Verne ATV software
28 September 2007
| Artist's impression of the Automated Transfer Vehicle approaching the International Space Station. In combination with ESA's new Ariane 5, the 20.5 t, 8.5 m-long Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will enable Europe to transport cargo to the International Space Station. This new vehicle, scheduled for its initial test flight in September 2004, can carry 9 tonnes of scientific equipment, general supplies, water, oxygen and propellant. Up to 4 t can be propellant for ATV's own engines to reboost the Station at regular intervals as atmospheric drag reduces the orbit. Developed under Aerospatialess prime contractorship, an ATV will be launched on average every 15 months as a means of ESA contributing to the Station's operating costs. It can remain docked for up to 6 months, during which time it will be loaded with Station waste before being undocked and flown into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.
Credits: ESA - D.Ducros | |  |  | |
| | | | | The Sonny Carter Training Facility, the site of the world's largest indoor pool, which contains a fully immerged mockup of the ISS so that astronauts can train for spacewalks.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the International Space Station moves away from Space Shuttle Endeavour. Earlier the STS-118 and Expedition 15 crews concluded nearly nine days of cooperative work onboard the Shuttle and Station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 6:56 a.m. (CDT) on 19 August 2007.
Credits: NASA | | | | |
| | | | | The Software Development and Integration Laboratory (SDIL) facility, where NASA replicates the complete International Space Station onboard avionics, is located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, the site of the world's largest indoor pool, which contains a fully immerged mockup of the ISS so that astronauts can train for spacewalks. The SDIL facilities are a few miles from NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
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