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  • Europe Launching Heaviest Space Station Cargo Ship Friday

    03/23/2012 10:44:04 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Space.com ^ | 22 March 2012 Time: 07:00 AM ET | Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer
    A huge, unmanned European cargo ship will launch to the International Space Station in the wee hours of Friday (March 23) on a mission to deliver a load of food and supplies to the orbiting outpost. The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 (ATV-3) is scheduled to lift off from a launch pad in South America at 12:34 a.m. EDT (0434 GMT) on Friday. The spacecraft will launch atop Europe's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The 20-ton cargo freighter, which is nicknamed "Edoardo Amaldi" after the Italian physicist and spaceflight pioneer,...