Back ATV AN مركبة النقل الفضائية Arabic Аўтаматычны грузавы карабель Byelorussian Автономен товарен кораб Bulgarian Vehicle de transferència automatitzat Catalan Automated Transfer Vehicle Czech ATV (rumfartøj) Danish Automated Transfer Vehicle German Aŭtomatigita Translokiga Veturilo Esperanto Vehículo de transferencia automatizado Spanish
The Automated Transfer Vehicle, originally Ariane Transfer Vehicle or ATV, was an expendable cargo spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), used for space cargo transport in 2008–2015. The ATV design was launched to orbit five times, exclusively by the Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle. It effectively was a larger European counterpart to the Russian Progress cargo spacecraft for carrying upmass to a single destination—the International Space Station (ISS)—but with three times the capacity.