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- Title ESA Euronews: The Space Truck
- Released: 20/05/2011
- Length 00:12:00
- Language English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
- Description
The European cargo spacecraft ATV is the most complex vehicle ever built to re-supply an International Space Station.
It can take nearly eight tonnes of cargo and uses artificial intelligence to accomplish some of its more complicated manoeuvres.
The Space Truck and its possible developments are the theme of this episode of 'Space'.
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- Activity Human Spaceflight
- Mission ATV, Edoardo Amaldi , Johannes Kepler
- People Nico Dettmann (ESA), Sandor Veres, Wolfgang Paetsch (EADS)
- System ATV, ISS
- Location ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC), Bremen, Columbus Control Centre (COL-CC), French Guiana, Kourou , Oberpfaffenhofen, Toulouse, Toulouse Space Centre (CST)
- Action Constructing, Discussing, Docking
- Keywords ASTRIUM, Cargo, Cargo Vessel, Cooperation, EADS Astrium, Engineers, Ground stations, Launch, Models, Reentry, Robot, Satellites, Smart Machines, Space science, Space station, Space Truck , Spacecraft control, Spacecraft navigation, Supply ship, Thrusters
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