'Jules Verne' ESA ATV launch !!

ESA Jules Verne ATV launch: Mar 9,2008 (Replay)

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Science & Technology

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• ESA
• Jules
• Verne
• ATV
• launch
• Ariane5
• Arianespace

[kevmccln]

I'm an American, but I'm a huge space enthusiast, and believe in an international effort. I hope most Americans and others don't dismiss this ATV as an unmanned cargo hauler. It's much more than that. The automated functions are revolutionary, and it's as big as the station's modules. Think the Italian cargo haulers the shuttle carries up to the ISS, but without the shuttle. Can the Jules Verne be overhauled into a manned capability? Europe should be proud of ATV...

[kapitankartoon]

I just hope this leads to a manned space craft. Europe has had a fantastic space program, Mission to Mars, The moon of Saturn, A profitible lauch service. A manned space flight capability is over due.

[basstemperature]

launch of ATV kepler today on arianespace TV : from paris 23h13 (pm), kourou 19h13 (pm) from USA : houston at 16h13 (pm) , from moscow 13h13 (pm)

TV transmission ready nearly 15 min before launch on arianespace TV

[ZemplinTemplar]

The classic type, similar to Soyuz, Apollo, Shenzhou or the currently developed Orion. It will simply be an improved ATV with a command module instead of a cargo container attached to the service module. Plus a heat shield, so the crew could return, of course. ESA's unofficial name for the CTV is Pégase (Pegasus). As far as pictures go, just google them. ;-)

[techdefined]

Very well done ESA and Ariane for this perfect mission and this technical marvel the ATV or better Jules Verne. This is a huge step forward. The Ariane 5 is getting almost every year better and and stronger.

[XxnesiexX]

french say top for ignition-well by watching theese videos i cna improve my french

sound liek a motorbike when its launching lol

[ZbLuffer]

Tell me how to see a rocket through the clouds...

[kevmccln]

The thing is, we're running out of resources here on Earth, or *will.* But everything we need, in spades, is located on our Moon, the other moons and the asteroids out by Mars. We need hands-on expertise to get out there and find it. While robotics will play a huge role, particularly on Mars, it will still need humans to get it done.

[joshatkins94]

There's tons of reasons for human spaceflight.

The most important is measuring the impact space travel has on human biology. Robots aren't alive, and they don't have bones to be affected by microgravity. A lot of science is done in developing EVA suits - how do you protect the human body in a vacuum, what about the pressure, the radiation?

You also need the correct atmosphere on the spacecraft.

And then there's the awe-inspiring recollections of the astronauts, which provide true inspiration.

[kapitankartoon]

I disagree with that. Private space craft have yet to be built and yet to orbit the earth. China is copying the old Soviet system over that of the NASA Apollo or shuttle. what they hope to do with it is still unknown. Unmanned launch vehicles have done 99.9 % of the science and work in space. There really is little need to put people in space unless you want to colonise. I would welcome that but i see no space agency really pushing for it.

[kapitankartoon]

too bad the hermes was canceled long ago. will the ESA manned craft be a space plane or a soyus like craft that China has now?

[joshatkins94]

ESA are hoping that a combination of the technologies in Columbus and the ATV will be able to be used to develop a manned spacecraft. After all, the Ariane 5 is a human-rated launch vehicle, as it was designed from the ground up as a launcher for the proposed Hermes European shuttle.