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  • ATV-1 reentry

    ATV-1 reentry

    Europe’s space freighter ATV Jules Verne burning up over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean at the end of its mission.

    ATV Jules Verne was the first of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicles to bring supplies to the International Space Station and help keep its orbit 400 km above our planet.

    A final deorbit burn at 14:58 CEST on 29 September 2008 slowed Jules Verne’s velocity by 70 m/s and spacecraft entered the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 120 km at 15:31 CEST. It broke up at an altitude of 75 km with the remaining fragments falling into the Pacific some 12 minutes later.

    The planned reentry into the atmosphere was filmed from a DC-8 aircraft as part of an observation campaign including recording from the Station itself, as well as from two specially-equipped observation planes located in the vicinity of the ATV’s flight path in the skies above the South Pacific. The campaign served to determine whether the vehicle’s breakup matched computer modelling.

    Credit: ESA/NASA

  • Delivering oxygen to the Space Station

    Delivering oxygen to the Space Station

    ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is responsible for unloading all the cargo from ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Georges Lemaître to the International Space Station. This includes the 100 kg of oxygen stored in ATV’s tanks. Here Alexander recorded the process of opening the valves and checking the pressure.

    Georges Lemaître bought 6602 kg of freight, including 2680 kg of dry cargo and 3922 kg of water, propellants and gases to the Station.

    Find out more about ESA’s largest spacecraft on the ATV blog: http://blogs.esa.int/atv/

    Follow Alexander’s Blue Dot mission via alexandergerst.esa.int

  • Docking of ATV Georges Lemaître to ISS

    Docking of ATV Georges Lemaître to ISS

    Highlights from the docking of ATV Georges Lemaître to the International Space Station. The fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle docked with the ISS at 13:30 UTC/15:30 CEST on 12 August 2014. The vehicle is carrying 6602 kg of freight, including 2680 kg of dry cargo and 3921 kg of water, propellants and gases.

  • ATV Johannes Kepler – Orbits and body motion in space

    ATV Johannes Kepler – Orbits and body motion in space

    This video is part of a series of educational videos that ESA is releasing based on the five visionaries that lent their name to Europe’s space freighters.

    Jules Verne, Johannes Kepler, Edoardo Amaldi, Albert Einstein and Georges Lemaître form the inspiration to explain the principles of physics to young and older audiences.

    Presented by Anu Ojha, this video offers a good basis to introduce schoolchildren and the general public to concepts of orbital mechanics.

    Accompanying these videos are also a new set of resources that ESA education is producing: Teach with Space, a large set of demonstrations and teacher guides intended to bring the excitement of space into the classroom to inspire the next generation.

    Classroom demos:
    http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/07/Marble-ous_ellipses_-_classroom_demonstration_video_VP02
    http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/07/Gravity_wells_-_classroom_demonstration_video_VP04

  • ATV-5: Georges Lemaître, Monseigneur Big Bang

    ATV-5: Georges Lemaître, Monseigneur Big Bang

    With ATV-5 George Lemaitre soon to be launched to the ISS from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ESA pays tribute to George Lemaitre, the Belgian cleric and professor who was the first to conceive the idea of a big bang.

    The name of the man who proposed the prevailing ‘expansion’ theory on the beginning of the universe was proposed by Belgium’s delegation to ESA.

    This video explains who was Georges Lemaitre and how he contributed to modern Cosmology. It includes an interview in English and French with Professor Dominique Lambert, Theoretical physics – University of Namur

  • ATV vs. UD: DJ Young Einstein vs. ATV Albert Einstein

    ATV vs. UD: DJ Young Einstein vs. ATV Albert Einstein

    For the 2013 Automated Transfer Vehicle docking day music video, ESA teamed up with California hip hop group Ugly Duckling (http://www.uglyduckling.us), who have produced a super space remix of Elevation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbSiqhJHcc). />
    Rock along to the beats of DJ Young Einstein and the visuals of ATV Albert Einstein!

    Follow the ATV mission to the ISS via http://blogs.esa.int/atv

    Music, lyrics and original video animation Copyright (C) Ugly Duckling (http://www.uglyduckling.us) 2012-13.
    ESA remix video credit ESA/European Space Agency, used with permission.

  • Meet ESA, the space agency for Europe

    Meet ESA, the space agency for Europe

    You, together with your 500 million fellow citizens from ESA’s 20* European member nations, are the collective owners of one of the world’s leading space agencies.

    The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its Member States in their national interest and common good.

    This new video offers a quick introduction: Europe, meet ESA.

    (*As of February 2015, 22 Member States)

  • 2012 ESA Missions Preview

    2012 ESA Missions Preview

    This video presents the key events in 2012 for ESA.

    André Kuipers continues his PromISSe mission aboard the International Space Station until May, the 4th ESA long duration mission. During his stay the third European ATV cargo ship will bring food and supplies to the orbital outpost. Early in the year the new Vega launcher will make its qualifying flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The end of the year will be marked by an ESA Conference at Ministerial level, a major decision point for the future of Europe in Space.

    More backgroud information can be found on: www.esa.int

  • ESA Euronews: El camión del espacio

    ESA Euronews: El camión del espacio

    El vehículo de carga europeo ATV es el vehículo más complejo jamás construido para abastecer la Estación espacial Internacional. Pudiendo llevar cerca de 8 toneladas de carga, el ATV es capaz de realizar maniobras que requieren cierta inteligencia artificial. El camión del Espacio y su posible evolución, esta semana en « Space. »

  • ESA Euronews: Il camion dello spazio

    ESA Euronews: Il camion dello spazio

    Il cargo spaziale europeo ATV è il veicolo piu’ complesso mai concepito per rifornire la Stazione Spaziale Internazionale. Potendo stivare 8 tonnellate di carico è capace di manovre gestite da una speciale intelligenza artificiale. Il camion dello spazio e le sue evoluzioni, è il tema di questa edizione di Space.

  • ESA Euronews: Der Lastwagen des Weltraums

    ESA Euronews: Der Lastwagen des Weltraums

    Der europäische Raumfrachter ATV ist ein hochkomplexes Fahrzeug, das die Internationale Raumstation ISS versorgt. Der ATV-Transporter kann bis zu acht Tonnen Fracht ins All bringen und dank künstlicher Intelligenz selbstständig manövrieren. Der Lastwagen des Weltraums und seine Entwicklung, in dieser Ausgabe von Space.

  • ESA Euronews: The Space Truck

    ESA Euronews: The Space Truck

    The European cargo spacecraft ATV is the most complex vehicle ever built to re-supply an International Space Station.
    It can take nearly eight tonnes of cargo and uses artificial intelligence to accomplish some of its more complicated manoeuvres.
    The Space Truck and its possible developments are the theme of this episode of ‘Space’.

  • ESA Euronews: 2011, año de los lanzadores espaciales europeos

    ESA Euronews: 2011, año de los lanzadores espaciales europeos

    Ariane 5, la punta de lanza de la industria europea de cohetes espaciales, lidera el mercado de lanzadores comerciales.
    En breve, otros cohetes se le unirán para completar la oferta europea, haciendo de 2011 el año de los lanzadores espaciales europeos

  • ESA Euronews: The year of the Launchers

    ESA Euronews: The year of the Launchers

    Ariane 5, the European space industry’s workhorse, continues to successfully carry payloads into orbit. Two new launchers will soon complement Ariane 5, offering a full range of competitive services to Europe.
    2011 will be the year of the launchers.

  • ATV-2 – A key ESA contribution to the ISS

    ATV-2 – A key ESA contribution to the ISS

    In recent weeks several space freighters, the Russian Progress and Japanese HTV, have arrived at the International Space Station. But the most important logistics spacecraft for the ISS is Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle. The ATV-2 called Johannes Kepler is to be launched from Kourou in just over a week and will be docking at the orbital complex on February 23rd with over 7 tonnes of cargo.

  • ATV: ‘Trucking’ in space

    ATV: ‘Trucking’ in space

    The ISS depends on regular deliveries of experiments and spare parts, as well as food, air and water for its permanent crew. ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle is one of the ISS’s indispensable supply spaceships.

  • Space for Europe

    Space for Europe

    Space touches us all on Earth – it is used for protecting our environment, for improving our everyday lives, for safety and security, and for stimulating our need for knowledge. Space is a key asset for Europe to face global challenges, for boosting our economic growth, for building our future.

  • Space: for protecting our environment

    Space: for protecting our environment

    Space touches us all on Earth – it is used for protecting our environment, for improving our everyday lives, for safety and security, and for stimulating our need for knowledge. Space is a key asset for Europe to face global challenges, for boosting our economic growth, for building our future.

  • ESA’s space ferry: The Automated Transfer Vehicle

    ESA’s space ferry: The Automated Transfer Vehicle

    The International Space Station (ISS) depends on regular deliveries of equipment, food, air and water for its crews. Since the arrival of the first Automated Transfer Vehicle in April 2008, it has become one of the Stations indispensable supply ships.