The first, launched in 2008, was named after celebrated French science fiction author, Jules Verne.
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The Jules Verne was filled with 3, 490kg of propellant for rendezvous, re-boost and de-orbit manoeuvres.
Yet each comes off a piker when compared to the true master of industrial clairvoyance, Jules Verne.
In 1902, the visionary Jules Verne said he didn't think novels would exist in 50 or 100 years.
The material includes a few unpublished typescripts, first editions and inscribed books from Jules Verne and Thornton Wilder.
But the time did not qualify for the Jules Verne trophy as it began in Barcelona and ended in Marseilles.
She is an experienced yachts-woman, having raced with Tracey Edwards on her Jules Verne attempt in 1997 aboard Royal Sun Alliance.
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Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
None have ever been seen alive, and the animal often features in maritime legends and fables, including Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Jules Verne's book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1954 with Kirk Douglas starring as sailor Ned Land and James Mason as Nemo.
Everybody came to see it the Prince of Wales, Jules Verne, Zola.
Jules Verne - its generic name is Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - delivered just under five tonnes of supplies to the platform on its maiden voyage.
These may not be the sea monsters Jules Verne describes in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but Iceland is the setting for his famous novel.
Whipped up by Charles Darwin's new perspective on life and by visions of lost worlds conjured up by Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that was an age of discovery.
"Keep in mind that he comes out of the tradition of (French author) Jules Verne, whose characters are always traveling around the world and finding lost civilizations and incredible ruins, " he continued.
He moved on to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tarzan and Martian adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the classic science fiction of Jules Verne and horror of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The company's Les Mureaux plant in France had a bigger role on the previous vehicle (known as Jules Verne) but with the switch to routine production, it was felt the lines of responsibility should be simplified.
"This is something interesting, " Weinstein says with typical understatement, lifting three volumes of a first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the store safe sitting next to a page from a Gutenberg Bible and a signed Jules Verne.
Spurred on by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne often included in the texts didactic technical explanations of how his inventions worked.
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