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Advanced Reentry Vehicle activities begin with contract signature


ARV study contract signature
 
Signature of the study contract with EADS Astrium in Bremen, Germany, for the Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV). The contract was signed on 7 July by Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA’s Director of Human Spaceflight, and Dr Michael Menking, Senior Vice-President and Head of Orbital Systems and Exploration at EADS Astrium, in the presence of ESA’s Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, CEO of EADS Astrium Space Transportation, Alain Charmeau, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Prof. Dr Johann-Dietrich Wörner and the Mayor of Bremen, Jens Böhrnsen.


 


ARV study contract signature
 
Signature of the study contract with EADS Astrium in Bremen, Germany, for the Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV). The contract was signed on 7 July by Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA’s Director of Human Spaceflight, and Dr Michael Menking, Senior Vice-President and Head of Orbital Systems and Exploration at EADS Astrium, in the presence of ESA’s Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, CEO of EADS Astrium Space Transportation, Alain Charmeau, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Prof. Dr Johann-Dietrich Wörner and the Mayor of Bremen, Jens Böhrnsen.



Release date: 14 September 2009