For the first time, the ‘videometer’ (VDM), a new technology device to ensure very precise automatic rendezvous operations between the 20.7 tonne Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle and the ISS, ...

Bremen, Germany – Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV, has been integrated and is currently being electrically tested in Bremen. For the first time the three ATV elements are linked ...

Eight days after launch, ESA’s latest Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, completed a flawless rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station at 17:08 CET (16:08 GMT) to deliver ...

Image: The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle approaches the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV The Jules Verne, the first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, docked to the ...

The European Space Agency’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resupply spacecraft is speeding toward a docking with the International Space Station (ISS), following a smooth countdown and liftoff ...

HOUSTON — The European Space Agency’s (ESA) unpiloted Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4) the Albert Einstein, is expected to have no difficulty berthing with the International Space Station (ISS) in ...

We’ve seen so many simulated spaceship-to-space station docking in movies and on television, but it’s rare to see such a lovely photo of a real-life docking. This is the European Space Agency’s ATV-3, ...

Here’s a photo of Europe’s Edoardo Amaldi Automated Transfer Vehicle, about to dock with Space Station last night. And here’s a quick video of the approach, with thrusters firing: Don Pettit | | Read ...