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Argotec won a contract to implement the Flight Hardware Training for the ATV-3 Control Team. Toulouse, France.


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Argotec won a contract to implement the Operations Training for the ATV Control Team. Toulouse, France.


The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is a partly automated cargo spacecraft. It is a major European contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), and the most complex vehicle ever developed by the European Space Agency.
The ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) has been installed since 2002 at the Toulouse Space Centre. Managed by CNES on behalf of ESA, the ATV-CC conducts operations and coordinates all ground facilities during ATV flights, in coordination with the ISS control centres in Moscow and Houston, which are indispensable partners for the ATV project.
After the successful first mission of the Jules Verne, the ATV-CC is now gearing up for the flight of its successor, Johannes Kepler, scheduled to launch end 2010.


The first training session, dedicated to the new ATV-2 Flight Control Team members, has been successfully implemented in February 2010, others will follow.


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Argotec will participate to the Human Dependability Workshop - HUDEP 2009 - organized by the European Space Agency (ESA).
16 September 2009 - ESA-ESTEC Noordwijk Netherlands.

For more information visit the HUDEP web site.

The Theme of the workshop is "Dependable Space Operations of ESA Projects". The Scope of HUDEP 2009 covers:
  • Past, ongoing and future mission operations,
  • Human dependability and Ground Control Centres, and
  • Space system operator lessons learnt.

Argotec will present the following topic:
"Structured Approach for Human Dependability in Space Projects: Policy, Analyses, Data, Verification, Procedures". See the workshop agenda.

Read our presentation developed with ESA QQD.

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