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ATV Getting Ready for Launch
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- Title ATV Getting Ready for Launch
- Released: 11/10/2004
- Length 00:07:53
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
- Description
This video from 2004 was prepared as the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Jules Verne, was preparing for launch. ATV is a supply ship for the International Space Station, carrying up to nine tonnes of provisions, equipment and propellant. It can also be used to reboost the ISS to a higher orbiting altitude and remove waste and material that is no longer needed from the Station. The video shows Jules Verne undergoing its final assembly and test campaign at ESA's Technical centre ESTEC in the Netherlands, before being shipped to the European launch site at Kourou in French Guiana for launch on Ariane 5. The video includes images of the ATV recorded at ESTEC, animations on the ATV precision docking, real footage of the Russian Progress docking with Zvezda and astronauts on the ISS. It has soundbites by ESA astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy recorded at the ATV "flight simulator" in France. 6.16 minutes