ATV Albert Einstein approaching the ISS,June 2013. Automated Transfer Vehicle 004 (ATV-004),named for Albert Einstein,approaching the International Space Station (ISS). The ATV spacecraft are unmanned resupply vehicles used by the European Space Agency to supply the ISS. This ATV,carrying 7 tonnes of supplies,docked with the ISS on 15 June 2013,some ten days after its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Visible here are its four solar panel arrays along with its vertical 'proximity boom' antenna. ATV Albert Einstein was later de-orbited,burning up as planned on its re-entry on 2 November 2013 | |
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