The European Space Agency’s (ESA) third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry has completed the final part of its successful six-month servicing mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Indeed, the Edoardo Amaldi burned up as planned on Wednesday over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific ocean as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere. The ESA describes its lineup of Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) as “the most complex” space vehicles ever developed in Europe – which are the largest and most capable resupply ships to dock with the Space Station. Continue reading
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Space freighter starts suicide plunge: ESA
NASA image shows the International Space Station in 2005. A bus-sized craft that had delivered food to the International Space Station will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere overnight for a controlled implosion over the South Pacific, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. A bus-sized craft that had delivered food to the International Space Station will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere overnight for a controlled implosion over the South Pacific, the European Space Agency said Tuesday Continue reading
Space Station Orbit Adjustment 'to Continue on Aug. 22'
The European Space Agency’s ATV-3 space freighter will carry on with a planned manouver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on August 22, the agency said on Thursday. The regularly planned reboost, by the “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle-3, stopped “prematurely” on Wednesday due to a temperature alarm in the vehicle’s propulsion system, the ESA said in a statement. Continue reading
ATV-3 Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station – Video
28-03-2012 18:43 Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) named Edoardo Amaldi docked with the International Space Station at 6:31pm EST on March 28th, 2012. Continue reading