At the end of a flawless six-month mission, Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle, undocked from the International Space Station today at 23:29 hours CEST. The ATV has now ...

On 29 May, the ISS partners asked ESA’s ATV operation managers to transfer into ATV 110 litres of un-recycled water drawn from the air using the Station’s humidity collector.

ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, burnt up on 2 November at 12:04 GMT over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean. It left the International Space Station a week ...

This simulation of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) space truck reentering Earth's atmosphere starts by representing the surrounding of the spacecraft as a three-dimensional cloud of ...

ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time yesterday to transfer in one step 811 kg of refuelling propellant to the International Space Station while the two vehicles orbited Earth at 28 ...

Three weeks into delicate fueling operations, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has also been successfully loaded with oxygen. In orbit this will be transferred to the International Space ...

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, is preparing to launch the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) -5 “Georges Lemaître”. In the early hours of 25 July 2014, […] ...