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Best of What's New 2007

Aviation & Space
ESA/EADS Astrium Automated Transfer Vehicle

The space station’s delivery truck

With the space shuttle set to retire in 2010, the ATV, the largest automated space vehicle ever, arrives just in time to keep the International Space Station stocked. Using a star tracker and GPS to navigate to within 1,000 feet of the station, it will close the gap with pulsed laser beams reflected from the station that help it to calculate relative speed and distance. The 1,700-cubic-foot cargo ship, completed this year and set to launch next month, will dock with the station and remain an integral, pressurized part of it for up to six months. esa.int


  
OTHER WINNERS IN Aviation & Space




CNES Corot
The Satellite Searching for the Next Earth




Cessna 162 SkyCatcher Light Sport Aircraft
THE STARTER PLANE




Vision Systems International Helmet-Mounted Display
SUPER-VISION FOR FIGHTER PILOTS




NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
HAVE SCOPE, WILL TRAVEL




Boeing EA-18G Growler
A RADAR-JAMMING JET




ESA/EADS Astrium Automated Transfer Vehicle
The space station’s delivery truck




QinetiQ Zephyr
MARATHON FLYER




Eclipse Concept Jet
JETS GET PERSONAL




Darpa Orbital Express
A robotic handyman for satellite repair




V-22 Joint Program Office/Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
The tilt-rotor copter finally flies




Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Gran Telescopio Canarias
THE WORLD’s LARGEST TELESCOPE




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