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Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle will
make a significant contribution to the
International Space Station
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE COLUMBUS Orbital Facility (COF), a pressurised science laboratory, was unt...
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 ...oined in 1984.
ESAs contribution to die Alpha
will be the smaller and re-named
Columbus Orbital Facility, which
is unlikely to be hooked up to the
space station until 2002.
The Ariane 5 and an
Automated Transfer Vehicle
(ATV) will be offered for logistic
services. The ATV will also be
offered for orbital-manoeuvring
purposes, in return for ESA's
operating expenses on the Alpha.
The pr...
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 ...as was a
European Space Agency (ESA)-
developed GPS receiver, which
was used to test elements of the
automated rendezvous and dock
ing system which ES A is develop
ing for the Ariane 5-launched
Automated Transfer Vehicle for
the International Space Station.
The major disappointment of
the STS80 mission was the cancel
lation of two spacewalks which
were to have been used to practice
ass...
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SHUTTLE RETURN TIM FURNISS / LONDON
NASA to add second safety flight
STS 121 Discovery will be launched after STS 114 Atlantis and will complete its workload as well as delivering ISS c...
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 ...HINGTON DC
Europe plans ISS cargo return
ESA to study two-way transfer vehicle for International Space Station for service flights after Shuttle is retired
Europe is studying a development
of its automated transfer vehicle
(ATV) capable of returning cargo to
Earth from the International Space
Station (ISS) once the US Space
Shuttle has been retired. A Phase B
study of the proposed two-way...
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 ...her transport systems designed to support the
fragile International Space Station (ISS) pro
gramme, the initial construction of which has
been delayed yet again to late 1998. An Ariane 5-
launched Automated Transfer Vehicle is being
developed by an Aerospatiale-led industrial con
sortium and a proposed Apollo-like Crew
Transfer Vehicle is being studied.
French industry has led in the develo...
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 ...urtailed.
A positive decision was considered vital not
only for the future of ESA, but also to ensure
than Europe could supply the revised Columbus
Orbital Facility (COF) in time, as well as the
Automated Transfer Vehicle now promoted by
France. ESA was also looking for enough
money to begin studies into a Crew Rescue
Vehicle/Crew Transfer Vehicle which would
ride atop the Ariane 5 to die...
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 ...ess orbiter, to be
launched injune 2003. 3
European ATV gets go-ahead
AEROSPATIALE HAS BEEN AWARDED a $470 million con
tract from the European Space Agency to proceed with the
development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for the
International Space Station (ISS). Leading subcontractors are
Alenia Spazio, Matra Marconi Space and DaimlerChrysIer
Aerospace. The lOm-long, 4.57m- wide AT...
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 ... delays.
The leadership of the COF project, which
includes contributions from many European
partners, rests with Dasa's space infrastructure
division in Bremen. This unit is also involved in
the Automated Transfer Vehicle, the European
Robotic Arm, and research on future crew
transfer vehicles and rescue systems.
The Columbus is Europe's primary contribu
tion to die ISS, and is to be laun...
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 ...emergency-return vehicle. Development
could begin in 1995. The CTV could be
flown by 2002 and would cost $3 billion,
says ESA, which has put aside $350
million on a CTV design programme, with
an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
The ATV is part of- the new scenario.
The space tug would propel the CTV and
the Columbus into space. The thinking
here is that, if ESA opted out of the
Freedom ...
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Computer error foils
Clementine mission
BY TIM FURMSS
The US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
(BMDO) will be unable to com
plete the mission of its innova
tive spacecraft, the...
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partners must listen to their
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A new $1.1 billion contract for
the first automated transfer vehicle
(ATV) has been negotiated by the
European Space Agency (ESA) with
prime contractor EADS Space
Transportation. The fixed-price
contract was renegotiated after
technical...
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ESA plans debut in 2005 for
Ariane-based Vega launcher
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed
that it is to develop the Vega low
Earth orbit satellite launcher using
Ariane bo...
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 ...2004 for redesign
of the uprated Vulcain 2 first-stage
engine; a qualification flight early
next year carrying a dummy pay-
load; and a second qualification
flight late in 2004 carrying Europe's
Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo
carrier for the International Space
Station (ISS). Industry would
provide €75 million.
In addition, €190 million a year
would be guaranteed to Ariane
space from ...
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LAUNCH VEHICLES TIM FURNISS / LONDON
Arianespace sets date for
Ariane 5 ECA to fly again
First stage engine will be redesigned following nozzle failure on launcher's maiden mission
A ...
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UK envisages future
in Earth observation
ADRAFT PLAN looking at future UK space policy has
confirmed a continued commit
ment to remote-sensing Earth-
observation programmes, which
co...
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 ...INDUSTRY
NEWS IN BRIEF
• CHINA VENTURE OPENS
The Xiamen-, China-based
Lucas Aerospace/Taikoo Air
craft Engineering (TAECO)
joint-venture company has
become operational, follow
ing approval by ...
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 ...AIRPORTS
Open for business
Operations have
begun at Denver's
new airport —16
months behind
schedule.
RAMON LOPEZ/DENVER
Heralded as "the airport for the 21st cen tury", sceptics began to belie...
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Economic booster
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
DEVELOPMENT OF an improved ver sion of Japan's H-2 booster is a reflection of the country's determination to cut the production costs of its satellit...
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Sunraycer puts Hughes-GM co-operation in motion
Motors, believe that military and commercial
technologies can work together. The merging
of defence and commercial "dual-tra...
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