How to Spot a Huge Space Cargo Ship in Night Sky This Week
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor
Date: 26 March 2012 Time: 03:35 PM ET
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This still from a video by skywatcher Marco Langbroek
shows the European Space Agency's space cargo ship ATV-3 as it passed
over Leiden in the Netherlands on March 23, 2012. CREDIT: Marco Langbroek (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) |
The giant space delivery truck is the Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 (ATV-3), a massive unmanned freighter carrying nearly 7 tons of cargo for astronauts on the space station. It launched into orbit last week on a mission for its builder, the European Space Agency.
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