{"id":225266,"date":"2015-02-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"5b66415607484ec869d2957b6c35d735"},"modified":"2015-02-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:00:00","slug":"final-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225266","title":{"rendered":"Final goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/02\/final_goodbye\/15259184-1-eng-GB\/Final_goodbye_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLast Saturday, ESA\u2019s fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, <i>Georges Lema\u00eetre<\/i>, undocked from the International Space Station at 13:40 GMT. Less than 30 hours later the spacecraft burnt up harmlessly in a controlled reentry over the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of the programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was taken by amateur photographer Alex Spiller in Saxony, Germany, shortly after the spacecraft left the weightless research laboratory. Travelling from west to east at around 28 800 km\/h, ATV-5 is visible as a faint stripe to the right of the brighter stripe \u2013 the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was one of the last images of the spacecraft before its fiery demise. Many people all over Europe went outside to bid the spacecraft a fond farewell \u2013 it could be seen with the naked eye and captured on standard cameras. Their images have been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/atv\/2015\/02\/17\/last-goodbyes-atv-5-seen-from-earth-a-tribute-gallery\/\">collected on the ATV blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nATVs delivered more than 31 500 kg of supplies over the course of five missions. They boosted the Station to raise its orbit numerous times and similarly moved it out of the way of space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe vehicles demonstrated European mastery of automated docking, a technology that is vital for further space exploration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe knowledge gained by ESA and European industry from designing, building and operating the complex ATV missions is instrumental for ESA\u2019s participation in NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which will fly astronauts to the Moon and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/02\/final_goodbye\/15259184-1-eng-GB\/Final_goodbye_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLast Saturday, ESA\u2019s fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, <i>Georges Lema\u00eetre<\/i>, undocked from the International Space Station at 13:40 GMT. Less than 30 hours later the spacecraft burnt up harmlessly in a controlled reentry over the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of the programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was taken by amateur photographer Alex Spiller in Saxony, Germany, shortly after the spacecraft left the weightless research laboratory. Travelling from west to east at around 28 800 km\/h, ATV-5 is visible as a faint stripe to the right of the brighter stripe \u2013 the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was one of the last images of the spacecraft before its fiery demise. Many people all over Europe went outside to bid the spacecraft a fond farewell \u2013 it could be seen with the naked eye and captured on standard cameras. Their images have been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/atv\/2015\/02\/17\/last-goodbyes-atv-5-seen-from-earth-a-tribute-gallery\/\">collected on the ATV blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nATVs delivered more than 31 500 kg of supplies over the course of five missions. They boosted the Station to raise its orbit numerous times and similarly moved it out of the way of space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe vehicles demonstrated European mastery of automated docking, a technology that is vital for further space exploration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe knowledge gained by ESA and European industry from designing, building and operating the complex ATV missions is instrumental for ESA\u2019s participation in NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which will fly astronauts to the Moon and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}