# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/rD8R7WoaEf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11738547-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2014-07-30T04:21:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Liftoff! The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) launched Tuesday atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:47 p.m. EDT. The ATV-5 will take a two week trip to the International Space Station docking to the Zvezda service module on Aug. 12 at 9:43 a.m. with 7 tons of science, food, fuel and supplies.

En route to the station, the Georges Lemaitre will pass 3.9 miles beneath the space station Aug. 8 so European flight controllers can test new rendezvous sensors. Engineers may use the new sensors in the design and manufacture of future European spacecraft. After the “fly-under”, the ATV-5 will pass in front, above and behind the station for the final four days of its rendezvous with Zvezda.

Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014

#esa #atv #ariane5 #iss #spacestation #exp40 #nasa

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spacestation, nasa, exp40, iss, atv, ariane5, esa

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