Truck "Albert Einstein" docked with the ISS - The Asian Reporter

MOSCOW, June 16 / Asian Reporter /. European transport ship ATV-4 “Albert Einstein” docked to the Russian segment of the International Space Station. On it informs RIA Novosti.

During rapprochement with the station the ship made four stops away from it in three and a half kilometers, 250 meters, 20 meters and 12 meters. In all these points, in case something went wrong would be on the program, the ship could break the docking procedure.

main objective of the spacecraft is the delivery of goods. In particular, delivered to the ISS more than 6.5 tonnes of freight: fuel, water, oxygen, food, experimental equipment, and facilities.

The ship will stay in the station until October 28, after which will be undocked and sunk in the non-navigational area of ??the Pacific Ocean.

ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) – automatic spacecraft designed to deliver cargo to the ISS. Furthermore, by using the correction motors ATV orbit. It is known that in 2014, in the space launch vehicle ATV5, which will be named Georges Lemaitre – in honor of the Belgian scientist, one of the founders of the “big bang”.

first truck ATV, “Jules Verne”, was launched to the ISS in 2008.

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