ATV-5 attached to the Station at night. Credits: ESA/NASA
Busy times for ATV-5 delivering fuel and oxygen to the International Space Station. Another update from ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) courtesy of Marcus de Deus Silva:
As well as the successful Refuelling System Leak Check reported yesterday, ATV-5 also finished its third oxygen transfer. Unlike refuelling, the Space Station crew is involved, so earlier yesterday morning Alexander Gerst opened the valves in ATV-5 to start the flow of oxygen from its gas tanks. Over the next six and a half hours ATV slowly released about 17 kg of oxygen into the Station’s atmosphere, carefully monitored by specialists in ATV-CC Toulouse, France and Mission Control in Houston, USA. At the end of the transfer Alexander reported that he was very refreshed by this European oxygen!
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Discussion: 2 comments
Love all these pictures you take and the updates. What was the exposure of the one above of the Milky Way?
You can find all the details of the picture on ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s Flickr page: https://flic.kr/p/phj2ys
In this case the exposure was 0.5.
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