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Tag: Automated Transfer Vehicle

  • 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-5 separation from Ariane 5

    ATV-5 separation from Ariane 5

    These images were taken by cameras on the Ariane 5 launcher that rocketed skywards on 29 July 2014 with Europe’s last cargo vessel to visit the International Space Station, ATV-5.

    The video shows the separation of ATV Georges Lemaîtres and its Ariane 5.

    From then on, it was a self-sufficient spacecraft heading towards the Space Station. The video also shows Ariane’s last stage manoeuvring out of the way.

    ATV-5 is carrying almost 6.6 tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station, including a record amount of dry cargo – 2682 kg.

  • 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 mission

    ATV-5 Georges Lemaître mission

    ATV-5 is the last in the series to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 29 July 2014. It has been named Georges Lemaître as a tribute to the Belgian physicist, father of the Big Bang theory.

    After launch on an Ariane 5 from Kourou, ATV automatically navigates to a precision docking with the Station’s Russian Zvezda module. It remains attached to the ISS for up to six months before reentering the atmosphere and deliberately burning up together with several tonnes of Station waste.

  • 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.

  • 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 mission profile with ESA Mission Director Kris Capelle

    ATV-2 mission profile with ESA Mission Director Kris Capelle

    ESA’s lead ATV-2 Mission Director Kris Capelle talks us through all phases of this complex mission – from launch preparation and lift-off to rendezvous and docking with the ISS through the attached phase, undocking and reentry.