/ / CyberSecurity.ru / / – The European Space Agency on Saturday reported on the successful docking of its new cargo spacecraft ATV-4 Albert Einstein c of the International Space Station. 20-ton truck docks with the Russian docking module “Zvezda” at 18:07 MSK, bringing the ISS supply of food, equipment and fuel. For Europe, today’s docking spacecraft has already become the fourth.
ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain said that with this docking Europe has once again proven its reliability as a partner of the international space industry. According to him, ATV-4 and ISS docked at an altitude of about 400 km, when both machines were flying at a speed of 28,000 km / h. Thomas Reiter, director of manned flight of the International Space Station at the European Space Agency, said that the cargo ship was used advanced docking system that provides positioning accuracy to a couple of centimeters.
According to Reiter, the docking of two spacecraft was carried out under the supervision of the astronauts on the ISS and specialists in the world, but in the process of joining, they actually did not intervene, as it took place automatically, adjusting the expense of computers on the ISS and the ATV. “At the ISS ATV unit will perform several functions. Like its predecessors, ATV-4 will fuel system and temporary habitable module and system for loading debris,” – says Reiter.
In ESA Headquarters reported that ATV-4 brought to the ISS 2480 kg of dry cargo, including 620 kg of cargo to the ISS are needed in just the past week. Total ATV-4 to the ISS more than 1,400 different items. In addition, the fuel filled in ATV-4 2580 kg Fuel for ICS orbital correction, as well as 860 kg fuel Russian module Star. There is also a 570 kg of water and 100 kg of liquefied gases (two tanks of pure oxygen and one – air) needed to fill the ISS.
Undocking and the subsequent flooding of ATV-4 is expected on October 28. The following space truck ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre preparing to start in 2014.
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