The European Space Agency is launching the first Automated Transfer Vehicle tomorrow in French Guyana . Though it look like a satellite , the ATV , christened Jules Verne , is really an unmanned shipment - hauling golem capable of carting 7.6 ton of supply and other astro - crap up from Earth , and even tow the International Space Station itself to a higher arena . And it ’ll do a pile of this stuff with no guidance from the carbon copy unit :
The most famous is the ATV ’s automatic rendezvous and docking engineering science – the ship can find its own way of life to the station and attach itself without any human intervention .
Other vehicle are manually driven in — optical sensors on the ATV confidential information and line up the truck for moorage , as you may see in the images below ( taken from the amazing BBC News telecasting you may skip over to below ) . Yes , the ESA refers to this automated linkup of ATV and ISS as “ mating . ”
Note to ego : Space station are not safe hideouts during robot revolts .
Tomorrow ’s launching will be carried off by an Ariane 5 rocket , and the forked - Dekker - bus - sized ATV will be the heaviest payload ever run by one . The tactical maneuver will be slippery than usual , with the upper stage of the rocket igniting twice , to get it up there and then again to advance it safely over the Pacific Ocean .
[ BBC News ]
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