Europe’s final ATV cargo vehicle undocks from ISS

Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5, the Georges Lemaitre) has departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning, ahead of a destructive re-entry on Sunday. The End Of Mission (EOM) events will complete the final ISS mission for the European cargo ship, although its spirit will live on with NASA’s Orion spacecraft program.The ATV-5 was launched on July 29, 2014 – atop an Ariane ES booster from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. ATV-5 proved to be the heaviest passenger ever to ride on the Ariane rocket. More

(Source: NASASpaceFlight - Feb 14)