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Uploaded by on Jul 8, 2009

ARV would provide ESA with the means of undertaking complete space transportation missions, from launch to landing, using the International Space Station (ISS) as its initial destination. Launched on an Ariane 5, the ARV would have a forward section to return payloads to Earth. This concept could then be used as a basis for developing a crew return vehicle. ARV is based on an evolution of the ESAs Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which has shown its capabilities for logistics supply to the ISS, and on the reentry technologies tested by the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator.

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  • @F22Raptorking

    Depends if your reentry vehicle has the ability to perform a de-orbit burn on its own. With this setup they can't do that, and it really isn't practical for them to do that because there is not much extra room in the service module to make it a communications/whatever satellite.

  • Could the service module perhaps be reused in space as a satellite, rather than waste it and have it burn in the atmosphere?

  • Nice, thank for upload. great to see it internally

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