When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Autonomous Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is an automatically piloted robot ...
ESA are set to announce a new launch date for ATV-3’s launch to the International Space Station (ISS) – now confirmed to be March 23 – after it was determined engineers will have to gain access to the ...
ESA had to settle for this artist's impression of the breakup and re-entry of its fifth and final ATV cargo tug because an onboard camera failed to transmit imagery. Credit: ESA/D. Ducros PARIS — ...
Good bye #ATV5! Arrivederci ATV5! That was the send-off tweet from European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as an unmanned automated transfer vehicle (ATV) cargo ship ended its mission ...
PARIS — Astrium GmbH of Germany will begin design work on an unmanned vehicle to shuttle cargo to and from the international space station under a contract signed July 7 and valued at 21 million euros ...
Ariane 5 flight VA219, set to carry the fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV-5 (Georges Lemaître) into orbit, rolls to the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for a scheduled ...
PITTSBURGH, April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a modular ATV cargo rack/basket and rail system that is easy to install and remove as needed," said an inventor, from West Union, W.V., ...