Europe's ATV space freighter burns up

The ATV-Johannes Kepler ship took 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the space station into a controlled dive into the atmosphere just before 2100 GMT on Tuesday. Most of the vehicle and its waste cargo would have been vaporised in the descent. Only a few robust pieces of hardware could have survived to the ocean surface, say officials. The burn-up brings to an end Kepler's four-month mission to the station. More

(Source: BBC News - Jun 23)