ATV-3

Automated Transfer Vehicle Edoardo Amaldi is moved to the Ariane integration building in Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. From there it will be loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch in March 2012.

ESA’s third automated space freighter will carry about two tonnes of dry cargo, 285 kg of water and more than three tonnes of propellants to the International Space Station.