Docking the last Automated Transfer Vehicle

ESA’s fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle, Georges Lemaître, arrived at the International Space Station on 12 August 2014 and docked autonomously. Inside the station ATV loadmaster and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst worked with Sasha Skvortsov to monitor its approach and docking with the ATV control centre in Toulouse, France, issuing commands.

This video shows excerpts of the docking from inside the International Space Station with Alexander and Oleg checking the approach stays within limits.

Georges Lemaître bought 6602 kg of freight, including 2680 kg of dry cargo and 3922 kg of water, propellants and gases to the Station.

Find out more about ESA’s largest spacecraft on the ATV blog:
http://blogs.esa.int/atv/

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