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ATV starts journey to Kourou
 
13 July 2007

ICC is placed in transport container
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The Automated Transfer Vehicle's (ATV) Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) is prepared for transportation from ESA's research and technology centre, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, to Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana

Credits: ESA - A. Le Floc'h
 
  Mind boggling
 
Ten weeks of packing activities
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Section of Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is lowered onto a transportation trolley at ESA's research and technology centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. After ten weeks of packing activities, ATV leaves ESTEC for Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, on 13 July 2007.

Credits: ESA - A. Le Floc'h
 
  Rotterdam harbour
 
Ten weeks of packing activities
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Section of Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is lowered onto a transportation trolley at ESA's research and technology centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. After ten weeks of packing activities, ATV leaves ESTEC for Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, on 13 July 2007.

Credits: ESA - A. Le Floc'h
 
 
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