Atv Automated Transfer Vehicle. But these programmes were abandonned at the next conference in 1992 at grenada. In 1987 at the den haag conference european ministers decided hermes a space plane and mtff man tended free flyer programmes.
Every 12 months or so atv hauls 77 tonnes of cargo from its launch site in kourou french guiana to the station 340 km above the earth. The jules verne atv or automated transfer vehicle 001 was a robotic cargo spacecraft launched by the european space agency. The albert einstein atv or automated transfer vehicle 004 atv 004 was a european uncrewed cargo resupply spacecraft named after the german born physicist albert einstein.
The automated transfer vehicle atv was a space vehicle developed by the european space agency within the framework of the iss programme.
Automated transfer vehicle atv uncrewed european space agency esa spacecraft that carried supplies to the international space station iss from 2008 to 2014. Since its first mission in 2008 europes automated transfer vehicle atv has been indispensable to the international space station. An automated transfer vehicle also known as atv is a payload which has 8 cargo spaces compared with apollo s 3 orion s 5 draco s 5 and the resupply module dockable s 6. They are designed to supply the international space station iss with propellant water air payloads and experiments.