The end for ATV Johannes Kepler
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
Europe’s unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth’s atmosphere today to end its mission as a spectacular shooting star over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lost at 20:41:39 GMT (22:41:39 CEST) at an altitude of 80 km.