PICTURE: First image of ESA's Jules Verne burning up on reentry

Rob Coppinger

on September 29, 2008 6:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

credit: ESA

Here is the first image of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle named Jules Verne reentering the Earth's atmosphere

Its de-orbit timetable can be seen here in an earlier Hyperbola blog post

ESA director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain announced the successful de-orbit of Jules Verne into the Pacific ocean at the end of the International Astronautical Congress' heads of agency plenary session today in Glasgow, Scotland

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