Europe's Last ATV Space Station Freighter Makes Fleet's Final Re-Entry

Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 15:30 in Astronomy & Space

In the end, ESA's final space station cargo freighter went out in a fiery blaze rather than the "big bang" of its namesake. The ATV-5, christened the "Georges Lemaître" after the Belgian astronomer, plunged into the Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.

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