NASA - Re-entry Breakup of Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle Captured

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The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle.

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Re-entry Breakup of Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle Captured

The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle was captured in dramatic fashion by scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory and a Gulfstream V aircraft as it re-entered the atmosphere early Monday morning over the South Pacific.

September 29, 2008
NASA-ESA photo / Bill Moede/Jesse Carpenter
ACD08-0218-004

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