European Cargo Ship Departs The Space Station For The Final Time

Euro­pean Car­go Ship Departs The Space Sta­tion For The Final Time



NASA,ISS,Expedition 42,ESA,utomated Trans­fer Vehicle,undock,ATV),Georges Lemaitre



ESA’s (Euro­pean Space Agency) fifth and final Auto­mat­ed Trans­fer Vehi­cle (ATV) undocked from the Inter­na­tion­al Space Station’s aft port of the Zvez­da ser­vice mod­ule on Feb. 14 at 8:42 a.m. EST.

ATV‑5 then moved to a safe dis­tance from the space sta­tion for its deor­bit and destruc­tive entry in the Earth’s atmos­phere one day later.

This is the last in a series of Euro­pean resup­ply space­craft that began ser­vic­ing the space sta­tion in the spring of 2008. In all, the ATVs deliv­ered approx­i­mate­ly 34 tons of sup­plies to the com­plex while docked to the sta­tion of 776 days. ESA is apply­ing its tech­nol­o­gy and knowl­edge from the car­go ship to devel­op the ser­vice mod­ule for NASA’s Ori­on spacecraft.



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