Ariane Flight VA213
with Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Albert Einstein
overview
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5 ES
- Launch date
- June 5, 2013
- Status
- Success
- Payload(s)
- Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) "Albert Einstein"
- Customer(s)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Prime contractor(s)
- Astrium
- Launch site
- Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)
- Orbit
- Circular orbit
mission update
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Another record-breaking Ariane 5 success for Arianespace: ATV Albert Einstein is on its way to the International Space Station
Ariane 5 “flexed its muscle” today with another record-setting Arianespace heavy-lift mission that orbited Europe’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for servicing of the International Space Station.
