RocketSTEM Issue #4 - November 2013 | Page 50

Fiery end for ESA’s ATV Albert Einstein ATV Albert Einstein, Europe’s supply and support ferry, after undocking with the International Space Station on 28 October 2013. Images: ESA/NASA ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Albert Einstein, completed its five-month mission to the International Space Station by reentering the atmosphere today and burning up safely over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific Ocean. Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV