Scheduled For Saturday Launch
To International Space Station
Saturday, March 08, 2008......
Be sure to click this news article out at link below...
For NASA, a 5-year timeout in space race
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The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is a 22-ton unmanned cargo carrier that will ferry almost 8 tons of equipment and spare parts as well as food, air, water and Russian resupply fuel to the station. It will use its thrusters to control the attitude of the space station and its main engines to reboost it.
The first ATV launch is set for March 8, 2008, from ESA’s Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, along the northern coast of South America. The Jules Verne will ride atop an Ariane 5 rocket, the largest payload ever carried by that rocket.
About Photo: The Ariane 5 ES-ATV launcher, on its mobile launch table, shortly after its transfer from the Final Assembly Building (BAF) at the Launch Zone (ZL-3) of Ariane Launch Complex no.3 (ELA-3) at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport, on 7 March 2008, for fuelling and final launch preparation. Also visible are two of the four 100-m-tall lightning towers surrounding the launch pad.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja 2008
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About Photo: Jules Verne, the first of the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to re-supply and re-boost the International Space Station (ISS), was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by an Ariane 5 vehicle...
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Photo Credit: ESA
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