NASA TV Airs Second European Cargo Craft Flight To Space Station

HOUSTON -- NASA Television plans live coverage of the launch and
automated docking of the second unpiloted European cargo ship that
will deliver approximately seven tons of fuel, food and supplies to
the International Space Station.

NASA TV coverage of the launch from the northern coast of South
America will begin at 3:45 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Feb. 15. The European
Space Agency and its launch services provider, Arianespace, are
scheduled to launch the Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle-2,
or ATV2, on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, at 4:13
p.m. (7:13 p.m. in Kourou). NASA TV coverage will continue through
the deployment of the cargo ship's solar arrays about 90 minutes after launch.

After an eight-day journey, the spacecraft will rendezvous and dock to
the aft port of the station's Zvezda service module.

If the ATV2 launches Feb. 15 as scheduled, NASA TV will broadcast the
final rendezvous and docking beginning at 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 23.
Docking is scheduled at approximately 9:20 a.m. ATV2 will remain
attached to Zvezda until early June, when it will undock and deorbit
for a destructive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the ATV2, visit:

http://blogs.esa.int/atv

For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew members, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Source: NASA

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