The other study would look at new low-Earth orbit applications for an ATV-derived vehicle.
Its design would lean heavily on technologies already developed for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
Astrium, Europe's biggest space company and prime contractor on the ATV, will be leading the feasibility work.
The third ATV, which takes off on March 9th, is named after Italian space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi.
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This gave engineers plenty of time to resolve the anomaly, explained Esa's ATV project manager John Ellwood.
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Sony ATV holds the rights to Beatles music and lyrics, and EMI Group controls the master recordings.
The ATV has two major divisions - a pressurised payload unit, and an avionics and propulsion unit.
They took an ATV ride to a zip-line course through the jungle, made more exciting by an unexpected encounter.
The ATV was launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on Saturday night.
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European industry will now take key elements from the design of its ATV to make the Orion service module.
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The international partners on the station project will now review the ATV's performance before giving the green light for docking rehearsals.
But ATV does now have its four solar wings attached, and soon its cargo will be added and the batteries installed.
The ATV is also used to drive the 400-tonne orbital complex higher into the sky to stop it falling back to Earth.
He hunts and traps muskrat, caribou and bear for their meat and pelts, driving an ATV or hiking up into the hills to find them.
Terrestrial commercial stations TVB and ATV reach viewers in neighbouring Guangdong Province.
As managing director, Henry bet heavily on international hotel chains Ramada and Renaissance, China property and infrastructure, and Hong Kong's second television station, ATV.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s it was best known for making programmes for Lord Grade's ITV company ATV, such as The Saint and The Persuaders.
This is likely to lead to an evolved ATV, one that keeps its core rendezvous and docking technologies but is updated to fulfil new tasks.
This work is quite advanced because feasibility studies in recent years have already considered how the ATV itself could be adapted into a crew vehicle.
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In one study, it will look at how the ATV's service module (propulsion and avionics) could be adapted to work with America's forthcoming Orion capsule.
However, I made up for it later with a wild ATV ride through a rushing mountain river that had washed away our road earlier that morning.
The latter has an engineering model of the ATV on which fixes can be tested before a patch is tried on the real spacecraft in orbit.
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Jules Verne - its generic name is Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - delivered just under five tonnes of supplies to the platform on its maiden voyage.
See it, via ATV tour, with Kipu Ranch Adventures.
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Wiberg of ATV acknowledges the idea then consisted mostly of old research and a big potential market but says he bet on the team's ability to get results fast.
The ATV - the biggest, most sophisticated spacecraft yet flown by the European Space Agency - passed just 30km under the ISS as it moved to the parking position.
The issue is now being studied at the ATV control room in Toulouse, France, and at prime contractor EADS Astrium's Functional Simulation Facility at Les Mureaux north west of Paris.
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You can locate a trail where you can run, go birdwatching, hike, bike, ride your ATV, go horseback riding, skate and even go geocaching (one of my newest interests with the family).
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