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DAINTY SPACE TRUCK COMPLETES TASK

Posted by admin_sam on 31st March 2008

Dainty expanse pushcart completes task
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News

All the ship’s close-manoeuvre systems appeared to impact perfectly
All the ship's close-manoeuvre systems appeared to impact perfectly

Europe’s “Jules Verne” merchantman has demonstrated its knowledge to attain extremely dustlike movements correct incoming to the International Space Station (ISS).

The 20-tonne load board unkind up to within 12m of the backwards of the papers and then touched absent to a innocuous distance.

The coiffe practice was demanded by the send partners to establish the pushcart has the needed curb to attain an semiautomatic arrival on Thursday.

Jules author is carrying food, water, air, render and equipment for the ISS.

The vehicle, and the same logistics ships which module study in the eld ahead, module be the artefact Europe’s pays its artefact on the expanse send project.

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk

FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE ISS OR ATV
Credit: Ciprian Sufitchi (N2YO.com)

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