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Jules Verne ATV
Jules Verne (ATV-001) Mass
Total 20,000 kg (44,000 lb)
Cargo 2,297 kg (5,060 lb)
Dry cargo 1,150 kg (2,500 lb)
Fuel 856 kg (1,890 lb)
Gaseous cargo 21 kg (46 lb)
Water 270 kg (600 lb)
Jules Verne ATV on its approach to the International Space
Station.
ATV,
The Jules Verne ATV or Automated Transfer Vehicle 001
Type ATV ATV-001),
(ATV-001 was an unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft
launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). The ATV
Organisation ESA
was named after the French science-fiction author Jules
Space station ISS Verne.[1] It was launched on 9 March 2008 on a mission to
supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propel-
Station crew Expedition 16
Expedition 17 lant, water, air, and dry cargo.
Because it was the first ATV, Jules Verne underwent
Contractors EADS Astrium (prime) three weeks of orbital testing before it began its final ren-
Thales Alenia Space
Arianespace (LSP) dezvous with the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the ISS on
3 April 2008 to deliver its cargo. On 25 April 2008, Jules
Carrier Rocket Ariane 5ES Verne was also used to reboost the station into a high-
Launch site Kourou ELA-3 er orbit.[2] After spending just over five months docked
at the station, Jules Verne undocked on 5 September 2008
Launch date 9 March 2008
and made a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean
04:03 UTC
on 29 September.[3] The Jules Verne mission was followed
Decay Date 29 September 2008 in 2011 by the second ATV, Johannes Kepler.
13:31 UTC
COSPAR ID 2008-008A Assembly
Free flight time 2 months The first ATV was officially named Jules Verne on 9 April
Docked time 5 months 2002.[4] By the end of January 2003, most of its com-
ponents had been assembed.[5] These components were
Docking
built by several different aerospace companies; the dock-
Docking port Zvezda Aft ing and refuelling systems were produced by RSC Energia
in Russia, the pressurised section was assembled by Ale-
Docking date 3 April 2008
14:45 UTC nia Spazio in Turin, Italy, and the propulsion system was
constructed by EADS Astrium in Bremen, Germany.[5]
Undocking date 5 September 2008 The propulsion system was integrated with the pres-
21:29 UTC
surised compartment in Bremen, before the spacecraft
Orbit was moved to the European Space Research and Tech-
nology Centre in Noordwijk, Holland, for testing.[5] It ar-
Regime LEO
rived at ESTEC on 15 July 2004.[6]
Period 91.34 min
Periapsis 331 kilometres (179 nmi) Launch and early operations
Apoapsis 339 kilometres (183 nmi) Jules Verne was launched into low Earth orbit atop the
Inclination 51.6°
maiden flight of the Ariane 5ES carrier rocket. Lift-off
from ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French
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Guiana occurred at 04:03:04 UTC on 9 March 2008. The mechanism should all other systems fail during the dock-
spacecraft separated from the carrier rocket 1 hour 6 ing manoeuvre.[11]
minutes and 41 seconds after lift-off, and navigation sys-
tems were subsequently activated. Two days later, on 11
March, the four main engines of the ATV were fired for
the first time, marking the beginning of several orbital
insertion boosts.[7] The Overberg Test Range played a
part in relaying telemetry data from a mobile station de-
ployed in New Zealand during the launch phase.
Glitches
After in-orbit activation of the ATV’s propulsion system
about two hours after launch, the second of the four
Propulsion Drive Electronics (PDE) units, which con-
trolled a quarter of the ATV’s manoeuvring thrusters, Jules Verne ATV approaches the International Space Station
reported an unexpected difference in the mixing pres- on Monday, 31 March 2008.
sure between the fuel and the oxidiser.[8][9] Engine burns
were briefly postponed whilst the fault was investigated. Subsequently, it performed two docking demonstra-
A restart of the entire propulsion system by the ATV tion tests called "demo days". These tests consisted of
Control Centre in Toulouse, France resolved the problem. a series of rendezvous with the International Space Sta-
ESA reported that the mission could have gone ahead tion, and culminated in its final test: actual docking with
even if one quarter of the manoeuvring thrusters had the aft port of the Zvezda service module on 3 April 2008.
been unavailable.[7] The rendezvous were performed by a fully automated
During the free-flight phase, some shell heaters were system using GPS and optical sensors, including a
more active than anticipated, but because the thermal videometer and telegoniometer. When Jules Verne was
and power situation remained acceptable, this did not af- 249 metres (817 ft) from the space station, the final dock-
fect the mission. Visual inspection from the space station ing procedure was guided by a videometer, which fired
later confirmed that some thermal blankets had partially laser pulses at cube-shaped reflectors on the Zvezda mod-
detached.[10] ule, and a telegoniometer, which functioned like a radar
system.[12] The ISS crew could have aborted the docking
On-orbit testing and docking at any point up until the ATV was one metre from the
station (CHOP or Crew Hands-Off Point); this was not re-
quired. Jules Verne successfully docked with the ISS on 3
April 2008 at 14:45 UTC.
29 March – Demo-Day 1
The ATV (on the right) closing in to the ISS (on the left) during
Demo-Day 2.
Because Jules Verne was the first ATV, several on-orbit
demonstration tests were performed in order to confirm
The ATV Approach Display on the ISS on Demo-Day 2, with
that it was able to safely approach and dock with the
Jules Verne only a few metres away from the ISS.
space station. After launch, the ATV spent three weeks in
free flight and successfully underwent Collision Avoidan-
During Demo-Day 1 on 29 March 2008, the first ren-
ce Manoeuvre (CAM) tests on 13 March and 14 March, en-
dezvous with the International Space Station was con-
suring that the CAM could be conducted as a last back-off
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ducted.[13] The manoeuvre culminated in a successful (46 lb) of oxygen and 856 kilograms (1,890 lb) of propel-
rendezvous with the space station at a distance of 3.5 lant was transferred to the Zvezda module,[17] and Jules
kilometres (2.2 mi) despite a minor anomaly with the Verne was also used to reboost the space station on four
electronic systems controlling the spacecraft’s en- occasions. About 1,150 kilograms (2,500 lb) of dry cargo
gines.[14] was removed from the ATV and remained aboard the
Jules Verne started its approach to the ISS at 14:19 ISS.[17]
GMT. At 15:57, it reached the S2 hold point and waited
there for 90 minutes to conduct tests. The ISS crew then
commanded the ATV to conduct hold and retreat ma-
noeuvres. At 17:30, the ATV was commanded to perform
an escape manoeuvre, propelling it away from the sta-
tion.[14]
31 March – Demo-Day 2
During Demo-Day 2, Jules Verne closed in to 12 metres
(39 ft) of the International Space Station, after which the
ISS crew simulated an abort. All targets for this Demo-
Day were successfully met.[13][15]
Original Jules Verne manuscripts displayed by the ISS crew.
3 April – Docking
On 3 April 2008, the ATV made contact with Zvezda’s aft Two original manuscripts by Jules Verne, as well as an
docking port at 14:45:32 UTC,[16] starting a sequence of illustrated 19th century Hetzel French language edition
docking events that included mechanical capture at 14:55 of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, were
UTC and docking with the ISS a few minutes lat- flown aboard the spacecraft, and were successfully deliv-
er.[13][17][18] Jules Verne remained docked there for five ered to the crew of the International Space Station.[1]
months, before making a destructive re-entry into
Earth’s atmosphere, while carrying space station waste
that was stored on the ATV before departure.
Docked operations
The ATV (on the left) docked to the ISS (on the right).
After docking and leak checks were conducted, the ISS
crew was able to enter the pressurised cargo module and
access the cargo. The ATV’s liquid tanks were connected
to the ISS, and their contents were transferred to the
station. The crew manually released air components di- Inside Jules Verne, while it was docked to the ISS.
rectly into the ISS’s atmosphere. The ISS crew gradually
replaced the ATV’s cargo with waste for disposal.[19] In The thrusters of Jules Verne were fired for just over 5
addition, 270 kilograms (600 lb) of water, 21 kilograms minutes on 27 August 2008 at 16:11 UTC to conduct a de-
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Designation Name Launch date Docking date Re-entry
ATV-001 Jules Verne 9 March 2008 Docked 3 April 2008 29 September 2008
ATV-002 Johannes Kepler 16 February 2011 Docked 24 February 2011 21 June 2011
ATV-003 Edoardo Amaldi 29 February 2012 Planned Planned
ATV-004 Albert Einstein February 2013 Planned Planned
ATV-005 unnamed February 2014 Planned Planned
bris avoidance manoeuvre. By slowing the station by ap-
proximately 1 m/s (2.2 mph), the altitude of the station
was lowered by approximately 1.77 km (1.10 mi).[20] This
manoeuvre effectively eliminated any chance of a colli-
sion with a piece of space debris which had been part of
the Kosmos 2421 satellite.
The ATV was one of the quietest places on the ISS,
as it was isolated from the rest of the station. Because
of this, the crew used it as sleeping quarters, and also
as a place to perform personal hygiene activities.[21] Yi
So-yeon also used it as laboratory space where she per-
formed nanotechnology experiments.[22]
At the time of its docking, the Expedition 16 crew was
aboard the space station. This consisted of Peggy Whit-
son of NASA who was the station’s Commander, along
with two Flight Engineers; Yuri Malenchenko of the Russ-
ian Federal Space Agency and Garrett Reisman of NASA.
They were replaced by the Expedition 17 crew in April
and May, who remained aboard the station at the time
of the ATV’s departure. This crew consisted of station
Commander Sergey Volkov of the Russian Federal Space
Agency, and Flight Engineers; Oleg Kononenko of the
Russian Federal Space Agency and Gregory Chamitoff of
NASA.
Whilst the ATV was docked, two manned spacecraft
visited the space station. In April, Soyuz TMA-12 deliv-
ered two members of the Expedition 17 crew, and also
carried South Korean spaceflight participant Yi So-Yeon.
Space Shuttle Discovery docked in May on STS-124, re-
placing Reisman with Chamitoff and delivering the Ja-
panese Experiment Module . No member of the European
Space Agency was aboard the ISS while Jules Verne was
docked.
End of mission
On 5 September 2008, Jules Verne undocked and manoeu-
vred to an orbital position 5 km below the ISS. It re-
mained in that orbit until the night of 29 September.[23]
At 10:00:27 GMT, Jules Verne started its first de-orbit boost • Behind the scenes of the ATV re-entry observation
of 6 minutes, followed by a second boost of 15 minutes at team.
12:58:18 GMT. At 13:31 GMT, Jules Verne re-entered the at-
mosphere at an altitude of 120 km, and then successful- ATV missions
ly completed a destructive re-entry in the next 12 min-
Sources:[25][26][27][28][29][30]
utes.[24]
• Jules Verne re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere
southwest of Tahiti.
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Day 2". http://asimov.esrin.esa.int/SPECIALS/
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[16] ESA video of capture (the exact time is shown in
[1] ^ "Europe’s ’Jules Verne’ spacecraft carries the upper right of the screen)
namesake’s notes on maiden voyage". [17] ^ "ESA Portal - Europe’s automated ship docks to
collectSPACE.com. 7 March 2008. the ISS". European Space Agency. 3 April 2008.
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[2] "Jules Verne boosts ISS orbit". esa.int. 25 April 2008-09-20.
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SEMPEISZEFF_index_0.html. Retrieved 2008-04-26. www.esa.int
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Verne mission accomplished". EADS. www.esa.int
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News_and_Events/news_ir/2008/ 2008-08-28. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/
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fault on orbit". http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ Voyage". Space.com. 9 March 2008.
2008/03/ariane-5-es-launches-with-atv-suffers- http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/
early-fault-on-orbit/. 080308-atv-first-launch-day.html.
[9] Jules Verne ATV under control after a textbook [26] "Multi-Program Integrated Milestones" (PDF).
launch on ESA.int NASA. 25 January 2008. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/
[10] John Ellwood, et al.: Jule Verne’s journey from 210208main_MPIM-rev-2008-01-25-04.pdf.
Earth to ISS – ESA’s first space ferry, ESA Bulletin [27] "Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi". 17
136, European Space Agency, November 2008. March 2010. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/ [28] "Spaceflight Now - Europe’s second cargo freighter
SEMWJMM5NDF_0.html. Retrieved 2008-03-14. to fly in December". 17 September 2010.
[12] "State of the art in automatic rendezvous". ESA. 2 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/17atv/.
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[30] "ATV-4 to carry name Albert Einstein". 26 May
2011. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/
External links
SEMKZDNSNNG_index_0.html. Retrieved • ESA - ATV
2011-05-26. • ATV Jules Verne reentry video on space.com
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