|  | | | | 2003: a challenging year to build Jules Verne
31 January 2003 Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship that is to fly towards the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2004, is already built.
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|  | | | Initial ATV test campaign completed ahead of schedule
25 September 2002 Thermal testing of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was successfully completed in August 2002 at ESA’s test facilities in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. This was the final step of a ten-month test campaign for ESA’s ATV whose different segments have been transported from Noordwijk to various industrial facilities throughout Europe.
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| | | | Collocation of ESA ATV management team and Prime Contractor EADS-LV: A very positive step
29 June 2002 To ensure that the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) launch meets the European Space Agency's commitment of servicing the International Space Station (ISS) in the autumn of 2004, around 1500 people in ten European countries are already working at a fast pace under the responsibility of the Prime Contractor EADS Launch Vehicles (France).
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