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ESA’s ATV programme was successfully concluded in 2014 with the fifth and final vehicle servicing the International Space Station. Originally intended as an additional freight capability for station resupply and complimenting Hermes’ cargo delivery capability, ATV was a survivor of the orbital infrastructure ESA was planning at one time, together with the heavily reduced-size COF. Notwithstanding the resounding success of ATV, the project contained a promise of much more along the way. Equipping ATV with a large cargo return capsule was considered and also, as an almost inevitable idea, a modification that would have allowed manned flight.
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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Space Freighter for ISS: The Promise of ATV. In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_17
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