The supply ship Edoardo Amaldi is about to leave the launch pad

The third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will be removed from the launch platform by the European Space Agency (ESA) on March 23, with the mission to bring supplies to the pilots. worked on the International Space Station (ISS), according to AFP.

Earlier, according to the initial launch schedule, the ship planned to leave the launch pad at the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana on March 9, but this mission had to be rescheduled due to incomplete inspection.

This third European automatic transport ship (ATV-3) is named after the 20th-century Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, who will leave the launch pad at 4:30 pm on March 23 (GMT, ie 11 hours 31 minutes on the same day as Vietnam time.

The ship Edoardo Amaldi has now been placed on Ariane 5 rocket and will carry 6 tons of cargo including fuel, drinking water, oxygen, food . to supply to ISS.

It will be on the station for 6 months and after that, the train leaves and carries the waste of the station. Most of the Edoardo Amaldi vessels will be burnt along with garbage when entering the earth's atmosphere.

Reportedly, before the ship Edoardo Amaldi, two other transport ships were also launched by ISA, the ATV-1, Jules Verne, launched on March 9, 2008 and the ATV-2 named Johannes Kepler, launched on February 16, 2011.

In addition to the mission of supplying cargo to the space station and taking away waste, the European ATV fleet also performs another important task to help push the station to a higher orbit by means of the ship.