Friday, February 10th, 2012
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Loading Cargo Aboard ATV 3 - Edoardo Amaldi
Image Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique Video du CSG–S. Martin 2011
The European Space Agency’s Edoardo Amaldi mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for 1000 UTC on 9 March 2012. It is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 0138 UTC on 19 March, and stay attached until the end of August, when it will detach and de-orbit with tons of garbage and burn up in the atmosphere.
This is the third mission by ESA to the ISS and will carry almost six tons of cargo:
- two tons of dry cargo
- 285 kg of water
- more than three tons of propellants
Assembled ATV 3 Spacecraft
Image Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique Video du CSG – J.M. Guillon
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Tags: ATV 3, Edoardo Amaldi, ESA, European Space Agency, International Space Station, ISS, NASA
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