ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle

3Jane · 03-08-08, 05:06 PM

Should be intersting, with the shuttle due off in the 11th of this month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7278414.stm

Steel_Tomb · 03-08-08, 06:33 PM

So am I correct in thinking it just burns up on re-entry? Or does it deploy some kind of chute to be reused? Seems a pretty expensive one-use vehicle with those advanced sensors.

XabbaRus · 03-08-08, 06:51 PM

Burns up on reentry.

Apparently more economical than spending the money on making it reusable.

Actually I am partial to the Soyuz capsules. REading about them they were a damn site more advanced in terms of reentry tech than the Apollo capsules.

3Jane · 03-08-08, 07:00 PM

It does seem terribly wasteful, but given the costs involved it must make sense to someone.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/SEMW4ZOR4CF_0.html

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/SEM35OK26DF_0.html

3Jane · 03-08-08, 10:07 PM

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Burns up on reentry. Apparently more economical than spending the money on making it reusable. Actually I am partial to the Soyuz capsules. REading about them they were a damn site more advanced in terms of reentry tech than the Apollo capsules. __________________

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3Jane Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: York. Northern England. Posts: 1,004 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It does seem terribly wasteful, but given the costs involved it must make sense to someone. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/SEMW4ZOR4CF_0.html http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/SEM35OK26DF_0.html __________________ Fate opposes me in vitality and morality, forced ever onward, burdened, always in shackles. So this very moment, without tarrying, pluck the quivering strings. Because fate punishes the one who plays, all lament with me. (http://hosted.filefront.com/KatherineRowan)

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