ATV: made in Belgium
The International Space Station is truly an international undertaking and the ATV is a true European contribution. The ATV is built from hardware supplied from all over Europe. In subsequent posts we...
View ArticleATV: Fabriqué en France
To celebrate the arrival of the ATV-3 info kits in French, Italian and German we will continue our in-depth look at contributions from individual European countries. This time France will be in the...
View ArticleATV: Hecho en España
Due to popular demand the ATV information kit has been translated into Spanish, and is available here. In its honour we will dedicate this post to Spain’s considerable contribution to ATV. Ten Spanish...
View ArticleATV: Van Nederlandse makelij
With ATV-3 securely docked to the Space Station and Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers in charge of unpacking it is only fitting that we continue our investigation of ATV’s European origins with a post...
View ArticleATV: Made in Switzerland
Continuing our series on countries’ contributions to ATV, let's look at Switzerland. The mountain country is often associated with Albert Einstein who lends his name to ATV-4. The scientist famously...
View ArticleSwiss made ATV
Continuing our series on country-level contributions to ATV, let’s look at Switzerland. In the case of ATV-4, the first connection is naturally the name: Albert Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Germany,...
View ArticleATV: Hergestellt in Deutschland
Part seven of our series on national involvement in ATV production will look at Germany. Germany is heavily involved in ATV production as Astrium Gmbh is the prime contractor. Their task is to bring...
View ArticleATV: tillverkad i Sverige
We are nearing the end of our blog posts on country contribution to ATV hardware as we feature the last European country in the series. Sweden supplied but one unit, but it is arguably one of the most...
View ArticleATV –сделан в России (ATV: made in Russia)
Having exhausted the European contributions of our 'ATV Made-in-' series on national contributions to the ATV project, now we look further abroad to our international partners. The International Space...
View ArticleATV: Made in America
Even though the last of the ATVs, Georges Lemaître, ended its mission last month we still have one more country to finish our ‘ATV-Made-in’ series: the United States of America. American company...
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