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ESA: successful re-entry marks bright future for ATV "Jules Verne"

Brussels, Belgium - Launched on March 9th, 2008 by an Ariane 5 rocket

Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) "Jules Verne" successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission today with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific. Following a final deorbit burn at 14:58 CEST which slowed its velocity by 70 m/s, the ATV entered the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 120 km at 15:31 CEST. It broke up at an...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1094806
Rome, Italy, 09/29/2008 19:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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