ATV’s fiery break-up to be seen from inside
Over on the ESA Space Engineering website, a full-length article on ATV-5's reentry camera: As ESA’s remaining supply ferry to the International Space Station burns up in the atmosphere, its final...
View ArticleMission update 9 January
Today marks just 34 days before ATV-5 undocking from the ISS and 47 days until re-entry. The mission is doing extremely well, and, as mentioned recently by our mission manager, Massimo Cislaghi, in an...
View ArticleATV-5 mission report #37
The folks at ATV Control Centre in Toulouse supplied another mission report on ATV Georges Lemaître, three weeks before its undocking. Unloading of water, fuel and air is either finished or almost....
View ArticleUpdate on ATV close-out
This sent in earlier this afternoon by ATV Cargo Operations Engineer Colleen Boggs at ATV-CC. This morning the ISS commander loaded the last bag into ATV – there is not much space left, they packed in...
View ArticleNASA’s reentry experiment saved for another day, space safety community...
When ATV-5 undocks tomorrow, it will carry ESA's Break-Up Camera to record its reentry and burn up over the Pacific Ocean. Originally, ATV-5 was going to reenter our atmosphere with two experiments to...
View ArticleATV’s internal camera delivered data, but not images
A prototype ‘blackbox for spacecraft’ running inside ESA’s cargo ferry as it burned up in the atmosphere managed to return data to the ground but, sadly, the images it took were lost in transit. ESA’s...
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