Official issues : request for approval of a contract concerning phase C/D of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Space Segment Development Programme. As appendixes: contract baseline evaluation, ATV flight configuration and main constituents, ATV mission profile, ATV industrial structure, tender action for ATV space segment development equipment, list of tasks and contractors sorted by country, chart of ATV development and start-up of production phase, geographical return for the project. As addenda: details on procurement process followed for the Fault Tolerant Computer (FTC) selection and on tasks of the Data Processing Working Group, implementation of the functional monitoring.

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