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EADS role in historic space mission
Written by News Desk   
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
The most powerful automatic spaceship ever built was launched on its maiden voyage at the weekend with East of England technology at its heart.

EADS-Astrium in Stevenage built the European Space Agency’s ‘Jules Verne’ – Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) – to fly to the International Space Station. The ATV is a sophisticated, automated spacecraft that can find its own way to the orbiting platform 400 km above the earth.

It docks at the Russian end of the ISS. Once attached, astronauts can enter its pressurised module and remove up to nine tonnes of cargo – air, water, scientific equipment, food, and clothing.

The vehicle will also pipe fuel through to the station and even use its own thrusters to maintain the platform’s altitude.

Equipped with its own propulsion and navigation systems, the ATV combines the fully automatic capabilities of an unmanned vehicle with the safety requirements of a crewed vehicle. Its mission in space will resemble that, on the ground, of a truck delivering goods and services to a research establishment.

In early April, Jules Verne will automatically dock with the station’s Russian Service Module and will remain there for up to six months until a controlled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere takes place, during which it will burn up and dispose of 6.3 tonnes of waste material no longer needed on the station.
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