ATV Cargo
ESA TV Exchanges
The first mission of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle will be fullfilling several needs, summarised as ""the three Rs"". It will be Re-supplying the International Space Station with an impressive variety of cargo and propellants; when attached it will be Re-boosting the orbital complex; and during its mission it will serve as storage for the station's Refuse. The A & B-Roll focus on these aspects of the ATV, with interviews in English, French and Italian with Jean- Francois Clervoy ESA Astronaut & ATV Senior Advisor, John Ellwood ATV Mission Manager, ESA, Nicolas Chamussy ATV Programme Manager, EADS, and Alberto Novelli Head of ATV Mission Operations, CNES."" The video also includes some new 3D graphics of the ATV mission.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS55933.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under :http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/CARGO_TV_22-02-08_wmphigh.wmv

The ATV : Re-supply, re-boost and refuse
A-Roll start 00 :01 :00
00:01 :40 In the years to come, the ATV will become one of the principal vehicles servicing the International Space Station with unprecedented capacities and capabilities
00:01 :51 At over 19 tons, the heaviest payload ever placed under an Ariane fairing, the space truck is 10.3 metres long, with a diameter of 4.5 metres... about the size of a London double-decker bus.
00:02 :07 The launch campaign saw the final assembly of this spacecraftís two main parts: the Service Module with the avionics and propulsion systems... and the pressurised Cargo Carrier with its docking port.
00:02 :20 Provided by ThalesAleniaSpace in Italy, the pressurised section offers 22 cubic meters, about half the volume of ESA's Columbus laboratory.
00:02 :29 It carries up to eight standard-size racks which can contain, in closed bags, a variety of supplies and instruments.
00:02 :37 180 kg of European cargo was first packed in Ita