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Product category: Batteries and Chargers
News Release from: Saft Space and Defence Batteries | Subject: Saft primary lithium batteries
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 March 2008

Batteries power space truck

Saft has designed, developed and supplied all eight onboard primary and rechargeable batteries required for the ATV Jules Verne.

Saft specialised primary and rechargeable spaceflight batteries are powering the ATV (automated transfer vehicle) Jules Verne, the most challenging spacecraft ever engineered and produced in Europe, on its maiden mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) On the morning of 9th March 2008, the 19.4-tonne ATV was placed successfully in a low earth orbit by an Ariane-5 vehicle released from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana