The automated transfer vehicle |
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| Institution: | 1. MASSAM LLC, 1300 Crystal Drive Arlington VA 22202 USA;2. The University of Texas at Austin, 201 E. 24th St, Austin, TX 78712, USA;3. Integrity Applications Inc., 15020 Conference Center Dr, Chantilly, VA 20151, USA;4. UT-Austin School of Law, 700 7th Street SW, Washington DC 20024 USA;5. NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg 260 MS 260-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA;6. ESA, 24 rue du General Bertrand, 75345 Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was confirmed at the October 1995 ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Toulouse by the ESA Member States as part of the programme for European participation in the International Space Station. The ATV will be a servicing and logistics vehicle for periodically resupplying the Station. It will be operational from early 2003, flying servicing missions about eight times until 2013 or more, depending on the Station's lifetime extension. ATV will be the tool to pay in kind for Europe's share of the Station common operations costs. |
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