ATV mission ends with destructive re-entry

摘要

Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six month ISS logistics mission on 29 September with a controlled destructive reentry over the South Pacific. Following a final deorbit burn, the ATV entered the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 120km and broke up at a height of 75km, with the remaining fragments falling into the Pacific some 12 minutes later.