ESA’s Jules Verne ATV Reaches “Parking Orbit”
Written by Marko on March 25, 2008
European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jules Verne, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), is reaching its “parking orbit” near the International Space Station (ISS). Jules Verne is a new type of ATV’s and will dock to ISS on April 3rd, if everything goes fine. So far everything has worked well.
“ATV works fine and our team is really waiting for docking“, says Alberto Novelli, the head of the flight. “Docking will be complex, but after successful launch, tests and moving to the parking orbit have went well, and this has given us self-confidence“, continues Novelli.
Jules Verne has parked in 2000 kilometers away from the ISS. It has been there for the undocking of Endeavour shuttle. After this Jules Verne will start approaching the ISS.
Read the rest of the news in ESA news site.
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