atv

After several days spent in a parking orbit 2000 km ahead of the ISS, Jules Verne ATV is now ready to join up with the International Space Station.

This first docking attempt can be followed live on April 3, 2008 from 15:30 CEST onwards from one of the European participating centers.

ESA's Artemis data relay satellite, controlled from Fucino (Italy) and with its mission control center and Earth terminal located at Redu (Belgium), is providing communications between the Jules Verne ATV and the ATV Control Center in Toulouse (France).