ATV starts journey to Kourou - story in pictures

With around 400 tonnes of spacecraft and equipment for the Automated Transfer Vehicle on board, MN Toucan set sail for Kourou from Rotterdam harbour yesterday afternoon at around 15:30 CEST. The vessel is expected to arrive at Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana, in eleven days time.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMEDBB474F_index_0.html

Time: 18. Jul. 2007

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Topics: kourou