Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi

Production of the Automated Transfer Vehicles is gearing up. After the flawless flight of the first ATV, Jules Verne, the second, Johannes Kepler, is being completed for launch later this year. Now the third ATV has been named after the Italian physicist and space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMMXBCKP6G_index_0.html

Time: 16. Mar. 2010

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