 |  New ’room’ for the ISS - ATV-3 now docked
 28 May 2012
Rendezvousing at 28,000 kilometres per hour at an altitude of about 380 kilometres is hardly routine –“ even for experienced spaceflight engineers and astronauts, which is why applause broke out in the European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Control Centre in Toulouse when the third European space transporter, ’Edoardo Amaldi’, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 00:31 CEST (22:31 UTC) on 29 March 2012.
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