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Monday, 18 June 2012 16:45

ATV

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is an unmanned automatic vehicle sent into orbit by the European Ariane 5 launcher. It provides the International Space Station with: cargo, water, air, nitrogen, oxygen and attitude control propellant. It also removes waste from the Station and reboosts it to a higher altitude to compensate for atmospheric drag.

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