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(ATV Docking Animation created from 70 hi res images acquired by L2 \u2013 LINK).<\/p>\nEurope\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5, the Georges Lema\u00eetre) departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning, ahead of a destructive re-entry that was conduted on Sunday. The End Of Mission (EOM) events concluded the final ISS mission for the European cargo ship, although its spirit will live on with NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
ATV-5:<\/p>\n
The ATV-5 was launched on July 29, 2014 \u2013 atop an Ariane ES booster from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. ATV-5 proved to be the heaviest passenger ever to ride on the Ariane rocket.<\/p>\n
Ahead of its arrival, it flew under the Station to demonstrate new laser and infrared imaging technology that will help future spacecraft to rendezvous with uncontrolled objects.<\/p>\n
After 14 days on orbit, ATV-5 docked with the ISS, delivering a large load of both internal (dry) and propellant (wet) cargo.<\/p>\n
(ATV Docking Animation created from 70 hi res images acquired by L2 \u2013 LINK).<\/p>\n
The pressurized Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) section lofted 2,600kg of cargo \u2013 including food, crew provisions, and scientific hardware \u2013 uphill to the orbital outpost.<\/p>\n
Space Technology (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n The Service Module (SM) manifest included 570kg of water, 100kg of gas (air and oxygen), 2,230kg of propellants available for ISS reboosts, and 860kg of propellants for transfer to the Russian Segment (RS).<\/p>\n The European vehicle enjoyed a successful stay at ISS, which included shoving the Station out of the path of a piece of space debris. <\/p>\n The Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM), conducted in November, was required after a tracked object \u2013 possibly a lens cap\/cover \u2013 from the Chinese spy satellite, Yaogan 12, became a \u201crepeating conjunction concern\u201d for the orbital outpost.<\/p>\n ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, working with Russian cosmonaut Sasha Samokutyaev, were the last humans to see the inside of the vehicle, as they completed their operations with the closing of the hatches between the two spacecraft on Friday.<\/p>\n Following its undocking, at 13:42 UTC on Saturday, ATV-5 conducted its pre-planned departure burn, ahead the plunge into Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n The re-entry occurred on Sunday, which was a change to the previous plan.<\/p>\n ATV-5 was set to enter the atmosphere at the end of February, via what is known as a \u201cshallow dive\u201d. This would have allowed NASA and ESA teams to learn more about how the vehicle eventually succumbs to the destructive forces of diving through Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n The decision to cancel the shallow entry option was taken due to the loss of one of the four power chains on the vehicle, resulting in the vehicle\u2019s death plunge being moved up to Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ATV team has worked tirelessly for five missions in a row,\u201d ATV-5 mission manager Massimo Cislaghi noted.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile teams are sincerely disappointed not to conduct the planned shallow reentry, the revised plan doesn\u2019t alter the program\u2019s overall success.\u201d<\/p>\n NASA is to utilize the saved REBR-W for use in a future re-entry, potentially on a Cygnus vehicle.<\/p>\n ESA note two entry monitoring experiments remained on board and were expected to send some information of the demise back to controllers in Toulouse, France.<\/p>\n In preparation for ATV\u2019s impending demise, the first de-orbit maneuver, called DEO-1, lasted nearly 14 minutes.<\/p>\n Following initiation of a tumble, ATV-5 then gradually began to feel the increasing effects of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n As temperatures rise and stresses increase, the four X-shaped solar arrays will be ripped off, before the forces eventually rupture the pressure vessel and propellant tanks, leading to vehicle disintegration \u2013 ultimately marking the conclusion to the ATV-5 mission.<\/p>\n Any surviving debris from re-entry will fall harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n Debuting with the Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) flight in 2018, the use of ATV hardware as part of the Service Module is expected to become a long-term deal between ESA and NASA.<\/p>\n Officials on both sides of the Atlantic have noted the arrangement is expected to become permanent throughout NASA\u2019s Orion roadmap.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is with a feeling of pride that we look back at our accomplishments on the ATV program,\u201d noted Thomas Reiter, Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations .<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to applying the experience and knowledge we gained from designing, building and operating five ATV spacecraft with excellent results to future exploration missions using the successor European Service Module of the Orion vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n (Images: L2\u2019s ISS and ATV sections, plus ESA and NASA).<\/p>\n (Click here: http:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/l2\/ \u2013 to view how you can access the best space flight content on the entire internet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Europe\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5, the Georges Lema\u00eetre) departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning, ahead of a destructive re-entry that was conduted on Sunday. 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All integrated operations with the Station proceeded to plan, including the final task of re-loading trash into the ATV, which will be burnt up along with the vehicle during its destructive re-entry.<\/p>\nSee Also<\/h4>\n
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Because of this, the ReEntry Breakup Recorder (REBR) \u2013 a spacecraft \u201cblack box\u201d designed to gather data on vehicle disintegration during re-entry in order to improve future spacecraft re-entry models, was removed from the ATV-5 and stored on the Station.<\/p>\n![\"2015-02-14](\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-14-03_32_29-ATV-re-entry-Google-Search-350x228.jpg\")
The second de-orbit maneuver, DEO-2 involved another 15 minutes of thruster use.<\/p>\n![\"Orion](\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Z651.jpg\")
Although the ATV missions to the ISS are now coming to a close, key design elements will be re-purposed, becoming the bulk of the Service Module for NASA\u2019s new crewed spacecraft, the Orion.<\/p>\n