ESA: Joint ESA/Russian team in Moscow ready to support Jules Verne
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When the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is launched in early March it will use several key spacecraft hardware items such as the docking and refuelling systems, and the Kurs radar, procured in Russia. European and Russian engineers have worked together to adapt them from their previous use on the Russian spacecraft Progress and Soyuz to the much larger 20-tonne ATV vessel.
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During the Jules Verne mission, the ATV will perform automated manoeuvres which are closely monitored by almost 60 controllers in Toulouse, Houston and Moscow. For the first time in history, three space centres will interact from different sides of the world.
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Jules Verne in attack mode, artist's impression:
(No. Those are the laser range finders. Probably.)
Launch target:
March 7, 2023 PST, Friday
March 7, 2323 EST, Friday
March 8, 0423 UTC, Saturday
March 8, 0523 CET, Saturday
2 weeks to launch