ATV Georges Lemaître, photographed on its approach to the ISS (Photo: ESA/NASA) The debris emanated from a 2009 collision between Russian satellite Cosmos-2251 and the US-made Iridium 33 .

To move the station, the thrusters of Esa’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) were fired. Usually, boosts are performed by a spacecraft docked to the ISS to raise the height of the space ...

sshuttle Atlantis is due to haul the ESA?s Columbus lab toward the ISS. The ATV, christenedJules Verne, has a narrow window to dock at the ISS between Atlantis? 11-day missionand the planned March ...

On March 28, ATV-3, named Edoardo Amaldi, docked with the ISS. Astronauts on the station took this unbelievable picture of it as it approached: [Click to massively embiggen. And you really ...

Europe’s ATV-5 cargo ship has set sail on a 14 day journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. The final ATV mission began when the vehicle’s Ariane 5 ES carrier rocket ...

The "Proximity Communication Equipment" (PCE) will provide S-band data communication between the ISS and the ATV during the last 30 kilometres before the ATV docks. It consists of two ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is getting a new load of groceries courtesy of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-5 Georges Lemaître which lifted off today. The 20-tonne unmanned ...

At the same time, the ISS Expedition 16 crew, Yuri Malenchenko and Peggy Whitson, has started the ATV training at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. "Their task during rendezvous ...

Mission controllers in Toulouse are now rescheduling activities to take Jules Verne ATV to its parking orbit in front of the ISS, including a demonstration of the spacecraft's Collision Avoidance ...

During three intensive reboost manoeuvres, ATV Johannes Kepler is raising the ISS altitude from around 345 km to 380 km, where it will use far less fuel to maintain its orbit and cutting the ...

s classof Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spacecraft to fly to the ISS. The agencyspent some 1.3 billion Euros ($1.9 billion) over more than a decade to developand build Jules Verne, and plans to ...

NASA and SpaceX have demonstrated the Dragon spacecraft's ability to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) with a 12-minute, 30-second burn of the freighter's ...