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Expedition 17 Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Undocking
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ISS017-E-015446 (5 Sept. 2008) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, European Space Agency's (ESA) "Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) begins its relative separation from the International Space Station. The ATV undocked from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 4:29 p.m. (CDT) on Sept. 5, 2008 and was placed in a parking orbit for three weeks, scheduled to be deorbited on Sept. 29 when lighting conditions are correct for an ESA imagery experiment of reentry.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineExpedition 17 Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Undocking. NASA/JSC, 2008-09-05. Public domain. ID: iss017e015446.
