The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has reached a parking position 2000 km ahead of the International Space Station

The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has reached a parking position 2000 km ahead of the International Space Station (ISS). Europe's ISS re-supply spacecraft will wait at this holding point for the completion of the STS-123 Space Shuttle mission before proceeding with the first of two rendezvous demonstration days. Two boosts took the ATV to its parking orbit at the same orbital altitude as the ISS. In the course of this maneuver, ATV passed just 30 km underneath the Space Station. Three smaller boosts in the course of the morning were used to adjust the spacecraft's orbit, with Jules Verne ATV finally arriving at the parking position.