Tuesday, August 12, 2014

ESA tests new rendezvous system as ATV-5 docks at Space Station

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ATV-5 docks under autonomous control (Image: ESA/NASA)


ESA’s last Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-5, Georges Lemaître, has arrived at the International Space Station. In what the space agency describes as a "flawless demonstration of technology and skill," the unmanned cargo ship autonomously docked itself while supervised by mission control in Toulouse, France and by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov inside the space station... Continue Reading ESA tests new rendezvous system as ATV-5 docks at Space Station



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