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The Automated Transfer Vehicle or ATV is an expendable, unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA).^[2] ATVs are designed to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, air, payload and experiments. In addition, ATVs can reboost the station into a higher orbit. ISS redirects here. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, â€² â€“ a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, â€² â€“ a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article is about the European Space Agency. ... The now-decommissioned Ariane 4 launch site The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. ... Kourou is a town and commune in French Guiana. ... Ariane 5 mock-up Ariane 5 is a European expendable launch system designed to deliver satellites into geostationary transfer orbit and to send payloads to Low Earth orbit. ... Apollo Spacecraft: Command Module, Service Module, Lunar Module. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. ... Unmanned resupply spacecraft are a special kind of robotic spacecraft designed to support space station operation that operate autonomously without a human crew. ... ESA redirects here. ... ISS redirects here. ... The process of boosting the altitude of an artificial satellite, to increase the time until its orbit will decay and it re-enters the atmosphere. ... Two bodies with a slight difference in mass orbiting around a common barycenter. ...

The first ATV, Jules Verne, was launched March 9, 2008 by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 04:03 UTC (01:03 local).^[3] It performed tests in orbit and then waited for Space Shuttle Endeavour to depart before automatically docking on April 3 at 14:45 UTC to the ISS on the module Zvezda, a Russian component of the station^[4]. is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... Ariane 5 mock-up Ariane 5 is a European expendable launch system designed to deliver satellites into geostationary transfer orbit and to send payloads to Low Earth orbit. ... The now-decommissioned Ariane 4 launch site The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. ... Kourou is a town and commune in French Guiana. ... This article is about the space vehicle. ... Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105), is the fifth and final operational NASA space shuttle. ... For other uses, see Zvezda. ...

Beyond Jules Verne, ESA has already contracted suppliers to produce four more ATVs to be flown through to 2015.^[5] A total of seven ATVs could eventually be launched to the ISS, mission managers said.^[6] Approximately €1.35 billion EUR^[7] was spent by ESA on the ATV programme. ISS redirects here. ... For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation). ...

Design

The ATV is designed to complement the Progress spacecraft, having three times its capacity. Like the Progress, it carries both bulk liquids and relatively fragile freight which is stored in a cargo hold kept in a pressurized shirt sleeve environment so that astronauts can have access to it without putting on a spacesuit. The ATV pressurized cargo section is based on the Italian-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), which is already in service as a Shuttle-carried ‘space barge’ transporting equipment to and from the Station. ISS Progress cargo spacecraft The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. ... A mini-bulker taking on cargo in Brest. ... March 10, 2001 - The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module rests in Discoverys payload bay in this view taken from the ISS by a crew member using a digital still camera during STS-102. ... This article is about the space vehicle. ...

ATV incorporates a redundant Russian-made antenna from the Kurs, a Soviet-built^[8] automatic docking system, similar to those used on Soyuz manned ferries and on the Progress re-supply ship. Also like the Progress, the ATV will additionally serve as a container for the station's waste. Kurs is a radio telemetry system used by the Russian space program. ...

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Development

The prime contractor for the ATV is EADS Astrium Space Transportation, leading a consortium of many sub-contractors. The prime contractor office is currently located in Les Mureaux, France, and will be transferred to Bremen, Germany, once the development is completed and the production of the four initial units starts.^{[update needed]} In order to facilitate the relationship between the contractor and ESA, an integrated ESA team at the Les Mureaux site has been established for the duration of the development. EADS Astrium Space Transportation was formed in June 2003 from the Space Infrastructure division of Astrium (whose core was originally ERNO) and the EADS Launch Vehicles division (formerly Aerospatiales Space division). ... Les Mureaux is a commune of the Yvelines dÃ©partement, in France. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ...

The first ATV arrived at the ESA spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 31 July 2007 after a nearly two week journey from Rotterdam harbour and was launched on March 9, 2008.^[9] The Jules Verne was the first ATV to be launched.^[10] Astrium Space Transportation builds the ATVs in its facility in Bremen. Contracts and accords were signed in 2004 for four more ATVs, which should be launched about once every two years, bringing the total order, including Jules-Verne, to five. Kourou is a town and commune in French Guiana. ... is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Nickname: Motto: Sterker door strijd (Stronger through Struggle) Location of Rotterdam Coordinates: , Country Province Government - Mayor Ivo Opstelten - Aldermen Jeannette Baljeu Hamit Karakus Orhan Kaya Lucas Bolsius Jantine Kriens Dominic Schrijer Roelf de Boer Leonard Geluk Area [1] - Total 319 kmÂ² (123. ... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... EADS Astrium Space Transportation was formed in June 2003 from the Space Infrastructure division of Astrium (whose core was originally ERNO) and the EADS Launch Vehicles division (formerly Aerospatiales Space division). ...

To this end, RSC Energia has signed a 40 million euro contract with one of the main subcontractors of EADS Astrium Space Transportation, the Italian company Thales Alenia Space, to supply the Russian Docking System, refuelling system, and Russian Equipment Control System. Within the EADS Astrium Space Transportation led project, Thales Alenia Space is in charge of the pressurized cargo carrier of the ATV. These pressurized cargo carriers are produced in Turin, Italy. S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (also known as RKK Energiya) is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. ... For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Turin (disambiguation). ...

Usage

ATVs are intended to be launched every 17 months^[11] in order to resupply the International Space Station. They will use GPS and a star tracker to automatically rendezvous with the Space Station. At a distance of 249 m, the ATV computers use videometer and telegoniometer data for final approach and docking manoeuvres. The actual docking to Zvezda will be fully automatic. If there are any last-minute problems, a pre-programmed sequence of anti-collision manoeuvres, fully independent of the main navigation system, can be activated by the flight engineers aboard the station. Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... For other uses, see Zvezda. ... Astronautics is the branch of engineering that deals with machines designed to work outside of Earths atmosphere, whether manned or unmanned. ...

With the ATV docked, the Station crew will enter the cargo section and remove the payload. The ATV's liquid tanks will be connected to the Station's plumbing and discharge their contents. The Station crew will manually release air components directly into the ISS’s atmosphere. For up to six months, the ATV, mostly in dormant mode, will remain attached to the ISS with the hatch remaining open. The crew will steadily fill the cargo section with the Station's waste. At intervals of 10 to 45 days, the ATV’s thrusters will be used to boost the Station's altitude.

Once its mission is accomplished, the ATV, filled with up to 6.5 tonnes of waste, will be separated. Its thrusters will move the spacecraft out of orbit (de-orbit) and place it on a steep flight path to perform a controlled destructive re-entry high above the Pacific Ocean. Atmospheric entry is the transition from the vacuum of space to the atmosphere of any planet or other celestial body. ...

Missions

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Jules Verne

The first flight of the ATV was delayed many times and launched on March 9, 2008. It is named Jules Verne, in memory of the first science fiction writer of modern times, and carries two of the author's original handwritten manuscripts, to be received by the ISS crew as symbolic tokens of the success of the first flight.^[14] Image File history File links Gnome_globe_current_event. ... ISS in earth orbit. ... Image File history File links Shuttle. ... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the French author. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

The craft was launched into a 300-kilometre (190 mi) orbit atop an Ariane 5 from the equatorial ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. The ATV separated from the Ariane rocket 1 hour 6 minutes and 41 seconds into flight, navigation systems were activated and thrusters fired to boost the ATV into the transfer orbit to the ISS. After three weeks of orbit adjustments, the ATV was about 39 kilometres (24 mi) behind and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) below the Station.^[15] It docked successfully at 14:45 UTC on April 3, 2008. Two bodies with a slight difference in mass orbiting around a common barycenter. ... The now-decommissioned Ariane 4 launch site The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. ... In astronautics and aerospace engineering, the Hohmann transfer orbit is an orbital maneuver that moves a spacecraft from one orbit to another using the lowest possible delta-v for the specific transfer. ... ISS redirects here. ... is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

ATV Control Centre

The ATV is monitored and controlled from the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in the Toulouse Space Centre (CST) in Toulouse, France. The centre is responsible for all planning and executing of every orbital maneuver and mission task of the ATV, from the moment of separation from its launch vehicle, until it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere. The center has a direct communication line with the Columbus Control Center (Col-CC) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Col-CC provides ATV-CC with access to to both the American TDRSS and the European Artemis communication networks in order to communicate with ATV and the space station. ATV-CC will coordinate its actions with Mission Control Center (MCC-H) in Houston, the FKA Mission Control Center (TsUP or MCC-M) in Moscow, Russia as well as the ATV launch site at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.^[16] New city flag (Occitan cross) Traditional coat of arms Motto: (Occitan: For Toulouse, always more) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region Midi-PyrÃ©nÃ©es Department Haute-Garonne (31) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (UMP) (since 2004) City Statistics Land... The Columbus Control Center is the Mission Control Center which will be used for capsule communication with the Columbus research laboratory once it has been added to the International Space Station. ... Oberpfaffenhofen is a village which is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. ... The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of communications satellites (each called a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite or TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. ... Mission Control Center (MCC) is a unit that manages aerospace flights. ... Houston redirects here. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... The now-decommissioned Ariane 4 launch site The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. ... Kourou is a town and commune in French Guiana. ...

ATV Evolution projects

The European Space Agency was studying potential evolutions and adaptations of the ATV, following the decision by NASA to retire the Space Shuttle around 2010. Most of these evolutions have been dropped. Many of the studies were focused on the adaptation of the ATV in order to allow cargo return to Earth's surface. ESA redirects here. ... For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... This article is about the space vehicle. ...

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See also

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Hipparcos (for High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite) was an astrometry mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars. ... The Huygens probe, supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) and named after the Dutch 17th century astronomer Christiaan Huygens, is an atmospheric entry probe carried to Saturns moon Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission. ... The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)is a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). ... International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra. ... SMART-1 was a Swedish-designed European Space Agency satellite that orbited around the Moon. ... YES2 - Young Engineers Satellite 2 is a 36 kg student-built tether satellite that will fly on ESAs Foton-M3 microgravity mission, scheduled for launch in September 2007. ... Cluster satellite FM2 The Cluster mission is an European Space Agency (ESA) unmanned space mission mission to study the Earths magnetosphere using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. ... Computer generated model of Columbus on the station Columbus at Kennedy Space Center Columbus is a science laboratory designed to be a part of the International Space Station (ISS). ... Corot is a space mission of the French Space Agency (CNES) and the European Space Agency, with a launch planned in 2006. ... Model of Envisat The Envisat (Environmental Satellite) satellite is an Earth-observing satellite built by the European Space Agency. ... European Remote-Sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agencys first Earth-observing satellite. ... GIOVE is the name for each satellite in a set of four being built to validate the Galileo positioning system in orbit. ... The Galileo positioning system is a planned Global Navigation Satellite System, to be built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). ... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. ... This article is about the concept of integrals in calculus. ... Concept model of the Mars Express spacecraft Main Engine Thrust for braking manouevre on Venus Express. ... MetOp is a series of polar orbiting meteorological satellites operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. ... Conceptual drawing of the Rosetta orbiter and Philae lander Rosetta is a European Space Agency-led unmanned space mission launched in 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ... The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft that was launched on an Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995 to study the Sun, and began normal operations in May 1996. ... Ulysses spacecraft Ulysses is an unmanned probe designed to study the Sun at all latitudes. ... This article is about XMM-Newton. ... Venus Express is the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency. ... ADM-Aeolus or briefly Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus is an ESA satellite that is due for launch in 2007. ... BepiColombo is a joint Cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. ... Chandrayaan I (Sanskrit à¤šà¤‚à¤¦à¥à¤°à¤¯à¤¾à¤¨-1), which literally means Moon Craft, is an unmanned lunar mission by the Indian Space Research Organization. ... CryoSat was an ESA satellite that was launched October 8, 2005. ... Don Quijote is a proposed space probe under consideration by the European Space Agency, which would study the effects of impacting a spacecraft into an asteroid. ... ExoMars model at ILA 2006 (Berlin) ExoMars. ... The Galileo positioning system is a planned Global Navigation Satellite System, to be built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). ... Gaia is a European Space Agency (ESA) astrometry space mission, and a successor to the ESA Hipparcos mission. ... ... GIOVE, or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element is the name for each satellite in a set of two being built to test technology for the Galileo positioning system in orbit. ... The Herschel Space Observatory is a mission of the European Space Agency. ... Part of KEOs logo at www. ... The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to be a significant improvement on the aging Hubble Space Telescope. ... LISA Pathfinder is the revised name for SMART-2, an ESA space probe to be launched in 2008. ... WMAP image, unrelated to Planck The Planck Surveyor is the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESAs Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme. ... SMOS is the second selected Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission (Cryosat being the first) developed by the ESA the European Space Agency. ... For the trade union, see Confederation of Cameroon Trade Unions CSTS or ACTS (Crew Space Transportation System and Advanced Crew Transportation System respectively) is a crew transportation system which is jointly studied by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) with the objective to design a... The Aurora Programme is a programme of the European Space Agency established in 2001 with the primary objectives of creating, and then implementing, a European long-term plan for exploration of the Solar System using robotic spacecraft and human spaceflight. ... The Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 is ESAs roadmap for scientific space based missions. ... XEUS is the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy space observatory that is being developed by the European Space Agency as a successor to the successful XMM-Newton X-ray satellite telescope. ... The Darwin Mission is a proposed European Space Agency (ESA) program designed to directly detect Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars, and search for evidence of life on these planets. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Hopper (spacecraft). ... The Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP) is a European Space Agency (ESA) program that began in February 2004. ... The IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle) is a project of the European Space Agency. ... The Mars Return Sample Mission is a joint project between NASA and ESA to collect rock and dust samples from Mars and to return them to Earth for analysis. ... The Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing satellite, in development by the European Space Agency. ...

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