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