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ATV evolution: Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV)

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Building on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) in the new scenario the pressurised Integrated Cargo Carrier would be replaced by a cargo reentry capsule, equipped with a heat shield and able to bring back hundreds of kilograms of cargo and valuable experiments. Such a project, named the Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV), would use heritage from the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD), which flew in 1998, as well as the work done in the definition of past space transportation system concepts.

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ESA's Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD), to be launched aboard the third Ariane-5 flight (Ar-503), in 1998, is a major step towards developing a European return-to-Earth capability. The 2.8 t, 2.80 m-diameter unmanned Apollo-shape capsule is sized according to Ariane-5's dual-launch performance. Some 200 sensors will monitor aerodynamic, aerothermodynamic, thermal protection and reentry blackout conditions. Ariane-5 will inject ARD into a suborbital trajectory peaking at 830 km altitude for splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean after a 100 min flight. [Image Date: 1998/05] [98.06.009-015]

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Future developments: Crew Transportation

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A possible future development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle is a crew transportation system.

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Last update: 25 March 2010

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