OVERVIEW OF ATV FLIGHT DYNAMICS OPERATIONS FROM SEPARATION TO DOCKING

摘要

On 09 March 2008, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle of the Jules Verne mission lifted off from Kourou aboard the Ariane 5 launcher towards the International Space Station. It was the first European automated spacecraft which has ever docked autonomously to the ISS. This paper presents the overview of the ATV Jules Verne Flight Dynamics operations from LEOP to Docking, including the unforeseen events that the Flight Dynamics System met and how it managed them.