Europe's first cargo ship to achieve docking with the ISS spacecraft.

<P> Keywords: European transport between the spacecraft docking station </ P> <P> GMT, 3 April afternoon, Europe's first automated cargo spacecraft, ships (ATV) and the International Space Station to achieve an automatic docking station to send it around .8 tons of cargo. .</ P> <P> the day of the European Space Agency released news that the spacecraft at 10:00 GMT to establish communication links with the international space station, then began to transform the spacecraft orbit, and gradually close to the international space station. .GMT 14:40 Xu, located in Toulouse, France, the control center to the spacecraft issued the docking of the command, the spacecraft in the satellite positioning system under the guidance of automatic station moves, and ultimately with the space station's "Star" service module implements the docking .The whole process was very smooth. .Docking is complete, the two will be the speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour around the earth simultaneously. .</ P> <P> Europe's first spacecraft to ship ATV Jules Verne, the famous French science fiction writer named, its mass of about 20 tons. .It was March 9 of this year aboard an Ariane-5ES rocket from Kourou, French Guiana Space Center launch, the flight arrived nearly a month after the International Space Station. .In addition to the international space station to deliver water, fuel and other goods, scientific instruments, the spacecraft will also help enhance the international space station orbit and returned to the station's garbage. .The spacecraft is expected to be out of the station after 6 months, and in controlled circumstances of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean burned. .</ P> <P> in the past 11 years, the European Space for the ATV spacecraft has investment of 1.3 billion euros (about 2 billion U.S. dollars). .</ P> </ p>.