Before Europe's advanced space transporter is ready for launch on its voyage to the International Space Station, the components that make up ATV Albert Einstein have traveled quite some kilometers over sea, land and air:
A great tweet from our colleague Lionel Ferra at EAC on the topic of how ATV is also one of ESA's excellent Down2Earth examples! Thanks, Lionel!
Video compression technics used by TV channels are used for #ATV rendezvous vids live fed from #ISS to ground #d2e_TV twitter.com/lionelferra/st…
— lionelferra (@lionelferra) November 17, 2012
Join ESA astronaut André Kuipers for a fascinating, in-depth video tour of the ISS, taking us through every module plus some of the hidden nooks and crannies that we rarely get to see. And of course, the best bits – featuring ATV – start around 33:50. Enjoy!
The ISS Expedition 31 crew opened the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft today at 11.53 CEST (09:53 UT). Wearing protective masks and goggles, as is customary for the opening of a hatch to any newly arrived vehicle at the station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit entered the Dragon with Station Commander Oleg Kononenko.
Watch the replay:
ESA astronaut André Kuipers and cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko open the hatch and start unloading ESA's supply ship Automated Transfer Vehicle 'Edoardo Amaldi' in this video produced by ESA TV. The Automated Transfer Vehicle docked with the International Space Station on 29 March 2012 delivering around two tonnes of dry cargo, 285 kg of water and more than three tonnes of propellants.
ATV-2 delivers: A cool video report spotlighting what's been happening with ATV Johannes Kepler since the hugely successful docking on 24 February. We're also planning a more detailed report later this week on flight operations and ISS reboosts conducted by ATV in the past 12 days.
See how ATV-2 was made! From bits and pieces to a fully built spacecraft squatting atop Ariane 5 ready to go - with a cool soundtrack, too. A new video from ESA that tells 'the story so far' of Johannes Kepler (hint: there's lots more to come!).
Webcast START 15.02 22:45 CET - END 16.02 01:35 CET
via http://www.esa.int
A little treat for a Saturday evening, just three days before lift off: The best ATV mission profile video yet produced! This video was produced by ESA and shows in exquisite detail how ATV Johannes Kepler gets into orbit, catches up with Station, performs a sophisticated automatic docking, serves as an integral portion of the ISS during the attached phase, and then undocks, departs and reenters.
The version below is in lower-resolution Flash format; download high-res here. Enjoy! (no audio)
Note: Watch ESA Mission Director Kris Capelle explain all stages of the mission in a personalized, non-technical interview (and including clips from this video) via ESA Mission Director Kris Capelle: ATV’s mission uncovered
Copyright: (C) ESA 2011
A very well-done video profile of the JK mission was just published by our colleagues at CNES, the French space agency. It includes a detailed interview with Martial Vanhove, the head of the CNES flight control team at ATV-CC. Audio in French + cool graphics!
