ATV-4’s 6 million km voyage to the International Space Station
ATV Albert Einstein ESA’s automated support and supply ferry for the International Space Station was launched by an Ariane 5 launcher on 6 June 2013. After travelling over 6 million kms over the course of ten days it caught up with the International Space Station on 15 June and docked with the orbital outpost only 11 mm of absolute centre.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano oversaw docking and unloading of Albert Einstein’s cargo as part of his six-month Volare mission on the International Space Station.
Beautiful, videos like this always get me really excited about science and technology. Keep up the great work and video coverage, thanks!
Truly amazing. A beautiful sensation seeing the Ariane take off. Congratulations ESA.
beautiful launch by ESA. compare to russia, seems scary lol
Awesome! Does anybody know the music used?
awesome video ! i hope that you will find something living in our solar system , indeed ;
777 tonnes to deliver 6590 kg of cargo, wow.
what a beautiful launch! especially that perspective from the ground camera, watching Ariane 5 climb trough the different cloud layers! 🙂
go Luca 😀
from a Sicilian engineer 😀
What's game is it Kerbal Space Program or Orbiter? 😉
wow