Science & Exploration

Second deorbit burn completed

29/09/2008 365 views 0 likes

ESA / Science & Exploration / Human and Robotic Exploration / ATV

At 15:20 CEST (13:20 UT), the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France, confirmed that the second and final deorbit burn for Jules Verne ATV was successfully completed. The 15-minute burn started at 14:58 CEST (12:58 UT) and started the spacecraft's decent towards a destructive re-entry over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean. Follow events in the ATV Blog: http://www.esa.int/blog.