Maiden flight of Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle 'Jules Verne', a roughly 20-tonne uncrewed cargo craft carrying over seven tonnes of water, oxygen, fuel, food and supplies to the ISS, launched on a specially adapted Ariane 5 ES.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 8 Ariane 5 ES flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 2008, 04:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ES
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2008-008
- Launches in 2008
- 8th of 69
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