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ESA ATV to Launch to the ISS in Early March

Representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now loaded and ready to launch. The spacecraft is the third unmanned space capsule that the organization constructs for resupplying the International Space Station (ISS). Dubbed Edoardo Amaldi, ATV-3 follo...

8 February 2012
06:41 GMT

Anniversary: ESA's Artemis Satellite Turns 10

The Advanced Relay and Technology Mission (Artemis) spacecraft was a massive revolution in telecommunications technologies for the European Space Agency (ESA), when it first launched. Now, a full decade later, experts look back at one of the most impressive European space assets. Some of the most innovative – a...

12 July 2011
09:18 GMT

ATV Johannes Kepler Undocks from the ISS

The European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, June 20. The spacecraft will soon be destroyed during a fiery reentry over the Pacific Ocean. Flight planners say that the ATV had to go because a Russian-built Progress spac...

21 June 2011
02:34 GMT

Heavy Traffic at the ISS Next Week

Early next week, the International Space Station (ISS) will be teeming with activity, as members of the Expedition 28 crew will manage the undocking of an unmanned cargo capsule, and the docking of another, just a couple of days later. On Monday, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)...

17 June 2011
05:22 GMT

ESA ATV Johannes Kepler Boosts ISS' Orbit

Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that one of their Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was just used to modify the orbital facility's path in its orbit.The ATV, called Johannes Kepler, carried out there successful reboost maneuvers, during which ...

11 June 2011
05:27 GMT

ESA Will Name Fourth ATV Albert Einstein

Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) it will build will be called Albert Einstein, in honor of the most renowned scientist ever. The ATV is an unmanned space capsule, which the agency uses to deliver tons of supplies to the International Space Station ...

26 May 2011
09:34 GMT

ATV Johannes Kepler Launches Today

Representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that the Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the second spacecraft of the series, launched today, February 15.The unmanned cargo ship is bound for the International Space Station (ISS), where it's due to arrive on February 23,...

15 February 2011
04:53 GMT

Progress 41 Docks on the ISS

A Russian unmanned cargo vehicle has finally made its way to the International Space Station, after spending two days tracking the orbital facility down in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The Progress 41 capsule docked to the station at 9:39 pm EST on Saturday, January 29. The spacecraft, which has automated docking capabilit...

31 January 2011
07:43 GMT

Johannes Kepler Attached to Its Delivery System

In anticipation of a mid-February launch, engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce the assembly of the organization's next unmanned cargo ship to its heavy-lift delivery system. The team in charge of the take-off efforts is spread on four continents. The cargo carrier in question is the Johannes Kep...

30 January 2011
07:06 GMT

ESA ATV Edoardo Amaldi Taking Shape in Germany

Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the organization's third automated transfer vehicle (ATV), called Edoardo Amaldi, is beginning to take shape in Bremen, Germany. The resupply capsule is not scheduled to take off earlier than February 2012. The first vehicle in the ATV series, Jules V...

20 January 2011
02:52 GMT

ESA to Build ISS Reentry Vehicle

In a conference on September 27, officials from the European Space Agency announced that the organization will seek funding from its member states to invest in the development of a reentry vehicle.ESA believes that a spacecraft capable of returning cargo and experiments from the International Space Station back to Ea...

8 October 2010
16:01 GMT

Endeavor's Launch Delayed by a Day

Officials at NASA say that they were forced to push back the final launch of space shuttle Endeavor by at least a day, due to a spatial “traffic jam” of sorts. Initially, the last mission that this orbiter was supposed to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) was planned for February 26, 2011. Now,...

5 October 2010
06:47 GMT

Second ATV Launch Date Delayed to 2011

Due to a hectic rocket launch schedule around the world, the European Space Agency will not be able to launch its second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) until 2011. For the rest of 2010, the skies will be very crowded, and numerous launches will take place around the world. These flights prohibit the ATV-2 spacecraf...

23 September 2010
03:52 GMT

Two Space Agencies Want to Upgrade Their Unmanned Capsules

Officials at ESA and JAXA announced recently that they are considering plans to upgrade their existing unmanned space capsules, the ATV and HTV, with the ability to return things to Earth. In other words, the two agencies are looking forward towards designing and implementing measures that would ensure their spacecra...

2 September 2010
03:02 GMT

The Kepler ATV Shipped to Kourou

Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they have just cleared the second-ever Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for delivery to Kourou. This capsule is called Johannes Kepler, in honor of the great astronomer, and represents a component of ESA's contribution to the International Space Station ...

12 May 2010
04:51 GMT

Third ESA ATV Named After Edoardo Amaldi

Once the first flight of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne completed flawlessly, the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to ramp up production on these unmanned spacecrafts. Their primary goal is to deliver cargo, safe and sound, to the International Space Station. They are a part of the international ...

16 March 2010
09:57 GMT

Second European ATV Enters Testing

Following the successful mission of the ATV Jules Verne last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) is currently working on its second Automated Transfer Vehicle, called Johannes Kepler. This class of spacecraft is designed specifically for rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS), and is able to carry vi...

16 January 2010
07:24 GMT

Considerations on the Future of Europe's ATVs

For a long time, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it plans to gain orbit-to-Earth capabilities, meaning it wants to develop a system that would serve the same function as the American shuttles, which are able to take cargo to the International Space Station, but to return materials as well. The European ...

23 June 2009
06:41 GMT

Russia Plans to Keep ISS Modules After Station Dismantling

A top Russian space official has recently announced that the Russian Federation plans on keeping its International Space Station modules flying when the station is dismantled. While this is scheduled to happen in 2015, chances are that the life of the orbital facility will be prolonged until 2020, or maybe even 2025....

23 May 2009
05:16 GMT

One Hour With: Pure

So, the demo for Pure is out and the game promises to offer players the chance to race powerful ATVs while also making pretty big jumps and doing a lot of over the top, crazy tricks. I hope that the guys at Black Rock Studio have done a good job on the game and I'm at the moment downloading the Xbox 360 demo, wh...

12 September 2008
20:51 GMT

NASA Has Its Eye on JAXA's HTV

NASA could soon start official negotiations with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to buy H-2 Transfer Vehicles in order to fulfill its obligations of delivering water, food and materials for scientific experiments to the International Space Station after the space shuttle will be retired in the second half of 2...

21 July 2008
03:45 GMT

Go off Road with Score International Baja 1000

You can count on Activision to try and corner every inch of the videogame market with its games. The soon to be biggest game company in the world, courtesy of a merger with Vivendi Games sometime during this summer, has announced that it is developing an off road racing game called Score International Baja 1000.Deve...

29 May 2008
03:01 GMT

ESA Could Turn ATV into Manned Spacecraft

European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automate Transfer Vehicle has successfully completed its mission last month when it delivered supplies to the International Space Station. After giving ESA a little taste of autonomy, the new supply ship could be used to design a manned spacecraft that would further reduce Eur...

16 May 2008
06:00 GMT

Jules Verne Raises Space Station to New Heights

Yesterday morning, the ATV Jules Verne executed its scheduled burning maneuver in order to elevate the altitude of the International Space Station. At 06:22 CEST, the ATV Control Center in Toulouse initiated a 740 second burn sequence of Jules Verne's two main engines, able to produce a thrust of 2.65 m/s, thus ...

26 April 2008
03:36 GMT

Soyuz Spacecraft Expected to Dock at Space Station

On 8 March, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and one South Korean astronaut was sent into space from the Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. After two days of catching up with the ISS, the spacecraft is expected to dock at the International Space Station today at 9:00 a.m. EDT. The two Russian astrona...

10 April 2008
06:26 GMT

ATV to Dock with the Space Station Today

The Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne has completed successfully the both demonstration maneuvers scheduled to provide with a preview of the spacecraft's capabilities, and is expected to dock with the International Space Station today at 10:41 ET, without any intervention form the crew on board the space st...

3 April 2008
03:31 GMT

ATV Completes First Maneuver, Prepares for Next

After the space shuttle Endeavor departed with the International Space Station on 26 March, the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne was given the go-ahead to move from its parking position 2,000 kilometers in front of the ISS, and approach it for the scheduled docking on 3 April. Before docking, the ATV must exec...

31 March 2008
05:22 GMT

Look For Three Points of Light on the Sky Tonight

Turn your eyes towards the sky once again tonight and observe a unique spectacle of lights, as the International Space Station, the Jules Verne ATV and the space shuttle Endeavor will be located in the same region of the night sky. The triple sighting will only be available on the night of March 25, since tomorrow th...

25 March 2008
11:48 GMT

Jules Verne on Track for Rendezvous

The European Space Agency reported in a press release yesterday that the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne reached the designated parking position to meet up with the International Space Station. Jules Verne will maintain this position until the end of the mission STS-123, when the space shuttle Endeavor will re...

20 March 2008
09:27 GMT

Jules Verne Suffers Minor Glitch

After being lifted up into space with the help of the Ariane 5 space rocket, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle detached itself from the launch vehicle and started its race towards the International Space Station. However, what was called by the European Space Agency a flawless launch proved to be anything bu...

12 March 2008
11:13 GMT

ESA Space Truck Launches Flawlessly

Yet another successful liftoff for the European Space Agency. The unmanned Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne launched yesterday from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 1:03 a.m. Local time, 11:03 p.m. ET. The Jules Verne ATV is the first of its kind launched into space to repla...

10 March 2008
03:31 GMT

Jules Verne Cleared for Launch

The European Space Agency issued yesterday a press release stating that the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne has been approved by the Launch Readiness Review, and will lift off on 9 March at 05:03 CET from the Kourou Spaceport in the French Guiana. The ATV is a joint between the ESA, NASA and contractors CNES, ...

6 March 2008
06:58 GMT

Jules Verne ATV Launch Delayed for March 9

As it turns out, not only NASA has problems with the launch of its spacecraft. It seems that the European Space Agency is currently experiencing some technical difficulties with its Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Jules Verne, and will need to delay the launch sequence by one day in order to fix them. According to th...

3 March 2008
09:08 GMT

Pure Promises to Re-Define the Extreme Road-Racing Genre

How many times have you heard game developers promising that their game will be the one that will re-define a particular genre? I know I've heard a lot of promises and most of them were nothing but dust in the wind. But, since you can't judge a book by its cover and a game by its screenshot (it looks incred...

14 February 2008
05:36 GMT

Jules Verne ATV Preparing for Launch

Following the successful launch of the Atlantis space shuttle, carrying the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has started preparation for the next task on its space program, the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transport Vehicle, the next generation of car...

12 February 2008
11:07 GMT

Jules Verne Filled with Highly Explosive Breathable Gas

After more than three weeks of delicate operations to load fuel onboard the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne, European engineers have also been successful in loading the precious oxygen cargo that will be delivered onboard the International Space Station. This represents the European Space Agency's first I...

29 January 2008
10:52 GMT

MX vs. ATV Unleashed: On The Edge Codes (PSP)

MX vs. ATV Unleashed brings Rainbow Studio's critically acclaimed ATV expertise to the "Unleashed" franchise, allowing gamers to compete with ATVs, dirt bikes and an array of new vehicle types including a redesigned monster truck, powerful sand-rail and a raised 4x4 golf kart. Players explore massive free-world ...

1 October 2007
10:05 GMT

A 14 Year Old Girl Will Send Her Favorite Music on the ISS

It's official. The winner of the wackiest competition organized by the ESA is a 14-year-old girl. The competition was proposed by the agency two months ago to see what kind of music the astronauts on board the ISS should be listening to.People were asked to send a playlist containing 10 of their favorite tunes...

3 July 2007
09:54 GMT

ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 - Cheats (Xbox)

ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 is all about big tricks, big boots to the face, and big finishes. Featuring 10 of the world's top 4x4 riders as well as 10 stylized characters, it offers fast, edgy, arcade gameplay that its fans have come to know and love. CheatsMaster codeEnter GOLDRUSH as a profile name to unlock all ...

2 April 2007
09:37 GMT


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