ATV-1 Jules Verne atmospheric re-entry in HD

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Credit: ESA/NASA

A final deorbit burn at

CEST on 29 September 2008 slowed Jules Verne’s velocity by 70 m/s and spacecraft entered

the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 120 km at

CEST. It broke up at an altitude of 75 km with the remaining fragments

falling into the Pacific some 12 minutes later.

The planned reentry into the atmosphere was filmed from a DC-8 aircraft as part of an observation campaign including recording

from the Station itself, as well as from two specially-equipped observation planes located in the vicinity of the ATV’s flight path in

the skies above the South Pacific. The campaign served to determine whether the vehicle’s breakup matched computer modelling.

Edited February 8, 2015 by toast

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