ATV-5 Georges Lema?tre mission
ATV-5 is the last in the series to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 29 July 2014. It has been named Georges Lema?tre as a tribute to the Belgian physicist, father of the Big Bang theory.
After launch on an Ariane 5 from Kourou, ATV automatically navigates to a precision docking with the Station?s Russian Zvezda module. It remains attached to the ISS for up to six months before reentering the atmosphere and deliberately burning up together with several tonnes of Station waste.
We've spent most of today talking about the launch of ATV-5. But what is ATV-5 and what does it do? Find out this and more in our latest video on the ATV-5 Georges Lema?tre's mission to deliver a record cargo to the International Space Station
http://youtu.be/r2x41O6KShk
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Fantastic video & explanation of this mission!
Nice video. Tonight (10-8-14). I watched the ISS pass over Ireland and was wondering what the object traveling in front of the ISS was. After some investigation found out it was this module. Epic to see it.