The European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Georges Lemaitre captured the International Space Station (ISS) in a new light in August, as it fired up a set of experimental ...

ESA’s last Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-5 Georges Lemaître has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). In what the space agency describes as a “flawless demonstration of ...

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 ...

ESA is also using Artemis, the European data relay satellite, as a backup during ATV free-flight, and as the primary communication system when docked to the Station.

Here’s how it works. European Space Agency logo for ATV-5 Georges Lemaître. (Image credit: ESA) Europe's line of space freighters is going out with a (big) bang.

The European Space Agency (ESA) ATV-5 has completed her final ever docking to the International Space Station (ISS). The “Georges Lemaître” is conducting an essential cargo run to the orbital ...

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano oversaw the unloading and cataloguing of the cargo, comprising over 1400 individual items. The complete set of pictures is available on the ATV blog.

Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is ready for launch and will be shipped to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in mid-July for a launch campaign that will last several ...

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, […] ...

This image shows ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France, during ATV-4 docking day, June 15, 2013. ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles deliver essential supplies to the International Space Station and ca ...

ATV LAUNCH: The European Space Agency (ESA) has set March 23 as the rescheduled date for the launch of the third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, on a five-month supply mission to the ...

This time-lapse video shows the ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre loading process and its integration on the Ariane 5 launcher before its transfer and launch to the International Space Station from Europe's ...