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ATV re-entry: First pictures

First images of Jules Verne ATV re-entry over the Pacific Ocean

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First Picture of Jules Verne Spacecraft Re-Entry Destruction
Taken from a DC-8, it shows the moment in which it starts to break at 9:43AM, just before falling into the Pacific Ocean.

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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 altitude of 75 km with the remaining fragments falling into the Pacific some 12 minutes later.

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Freighter starts dive manoeuvres
Europe's biggest, most sophisticated spaceship is about to bring its six-month mission to an end by plunging into the Pacific in a ball of flames.

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At 13:30 UT, 29th September the Jules Verne cargo ship will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific Ocean.

Re-entry Timeline

    * First burn planned for 10:00 UT (12:00 CEST)
    * Second burn planned at 12:58 UT (14:58 CEST) will bring ATV to 120km altitude
    * Impact is foreseen for 13:43 UT (15:43 CEST)
    * First report (via satphone) from the airborne observation team expected +/- 14:00 UT (16:00 CEST)

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Europe's biggest, most sophisticated spaceship is about to bring its six-month mission to an end by plunging into the Pacific in a ball of flames.

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Since undocking from the station Sept. 5, Jules Verne is preparing for its final voyage: a crash landing in Earth's atmosphere. The event will create a fireball in the sky as the vehicle breaks up over the South Pacific Ocean. NASA plans to monitor the crash from the air.

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Replay undocking Jules Verne ATV
The view from the International Space Station as Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, retreats away from the orbital outpost following undocking.

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At the end of a flawless six-month mission, Jules Verne, Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle, undocked from the International Space Station today at 23:29 hours CEST. The ATV has now embarked on the last leg of its journey in space, which will end with a controlled destructive re-entry into the Earths atmosphere on 29 September.

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