ESA ATV Jules Verne Re-entry

[minimalizam009]

Fake and gay.

[snipernael2]

lindo espetaculo

[XRayCam]

WoW....wish I filmed that :-)

[dropkik24]

Filmed by Muhammad Ali

[fookfocketyfookfook]

You would think with a multi billion budget they could get a steady camera shot of this

[v12tommy]

Upon seeing the large fireball, 37 French people surrendered.

[DJB747]

"an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean" :-)

[amoghakrishnas]

Jules Verne... one of the greatest author/ visionary who ever lived!

this is cool!!

[ww2footage]

idea is great but realisation not much .. 20 tons of ESA ATV weight and only 2 tons of cargo weight ?? .. failure

[ratrak73]

@ww2footage

it's 7.6 tons cargo... not 2 tons -> pretty successful

[aaafgdhfgdhfgdhgfzzz]

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[rocc62]

tout cet argent brûlait, y a tant de gens qui crêvent de faim!!!

[tiorojo]

"money" didn't burn, it accomplished its purpose of resupplying, boosting the ISS and getting rid of its waste

[yes4me]

pas une perte... si la station est perdue, c'est encore pire

[flornyflorny]

i cant believe that this spectacular re entry was captured by one cam. its so unsteady that you really cant appreciate it. anyone got a decent vid of this???

[rpcinmn]

Does anyone know the name of the song that accompanies this clip, or who originally combined the clip and song?

Thanks.

[jeffamcdaniel]

Does anyone know the song/composer that accompanies the original video from the ESA?

[Mueiwark]

Quite impressive and beautiful, almost art! This gives a good impression how violent and dangerous re-entry is for manned spacecraft.

[eliteobserver]

damn, learn to hold the fucking camera

[drsheikhjunior]

how can they hold the camera to chase a disintergrating spacecraft flying at 4 miles a second??

[lithiumdeuteride]

The spacecraft is several hundred miles away. It doesn't cover much of your view angle in one second unless you're really close.

[delldell21]

Im gonna go get some weed and come back and watch this over and over.

[piper2000ca]

Yes.

[gomer544]

Wow!

[pilubuster]

I have worked on construction of ATV, and are sad today, but also very proud of the work done by us here in Turin (Italy).

[drsheikhjunior]

Salute to you and all ESA people.

[FantasticBob7000]

@pilubuster When are you going to build the manned version?

[Z28Jerry]

Only a matter of time before you log into a nutjob UFO board and see fools claiming this is planet X or something.......

[Sheeple73]

Great! We are finding all new ways to be irresponsible while we litter this planet!

(bring on the hate comments for being aware)

THINK

[smitty1276]

It vaporizes, dude.

[modelun12]

nigga please

[Sheeple73]

LOL

[nathanmoeller]

Dude, you're the one who needs to be aware of things before posting. There's no harm in this. All of the unused fuel is detroyed during entry and the fragments of the vehicle simply splash into the Pacific where they just sink to the bottom.

[Sheeple73]

You make me sad. you really see no harm in littering the ocean floor? really!??! out of sight out of mind is NOT being 'aware' either. The problem is that americans ,NASA included apparently, cant see that a long term problem may occur while we/they pat each other on the back.. then 50 years later its in our face. 2 examples of this are; smog testing in most states and the state of the economy.. Nobody bothers deal with it till its too late!

THINK

[nathanmoeller]

Considering the fact that the pieces that survive the entry enough to actually hit the surface are tiny, and the space agencies examine what environment impact, if any these things have before casting them into the sea, I have to let you know that there is no problem with this. They do it in a manner that is safe for both man and sea creature alike. Besides...nothing on the ocean floor anyway. At that depth, there's little life and no use for us.

[nathanmoeller]

But let's indulge your misplaced sense of environmental awareness for just a moment. Would you rather these things come down on land, endangering human lives instead of your precious ocean floor, where no one and no creature is at risk?

[JTHM257]

I'm just gonna say this, Nathan. There is much, much more life down there than you think there is. Everything else I agree with, and I wish to add my own. This jackass is concerned that these few pieces of metal is going to kill off the ocean, basically. But it's completely obvious he doesn't know what he's talking about. They sunk a Navy supercarrier to make a natural habitat for marine life. Tons of metal. They throw buses, all sorts of shit down there for a habitat for marine life.

[JTHM257]

So, the moral of this story is do your research before trying to atleast give YOURSELF the delusion of intelligence. If we sunk a supercarrier to give marine life a habitat (the Titanic makes a great one too), tell me, what's a few shreds of metal compared to tons of metal in the form of a sea vessel?

[nathanmoeller]

Who are you talking to on this one? I'm guessing it's Sheeple, but just wondering.

[ashteryth]

nathan is correct, it's doubtful anything survives, and what would survive would be so small and miniscule that it'd be a virtual non-issue. Most of the man made materials on the craft would be the first things to incinerate, the pieces that would survive would mostly be natural metals anyways, and would have no impact on the ocean floor if that's where they landed.

All in all, a meteorite probably has a greater likelihood of littering the ocean than this lightweight craft.

[miisu]

Twat.

[tehdusto]

its kinna like recycling! do you hate recycling sheeple? appearently you do

[ajkl27]

what are you commenting on?

[ajkl27]

as who?

jules vern?

[moonyelloweyes]

I'd say that were pretty if it weren't death.

[Jmcenanly]

It was an empty container. There was no one aboard.

[moonyelloweyes]

Oh, that's good D:

Now I can think of it as fiery confetti.

[nathanmoeller]

No one on board these things. The Russians do this all the time with their Progress resupply ships. No one is ever at risk. The only time (and what we hope is the LAST time) anyone has perished aboard a spacecraft due to break up during re-entry was during the Columbia mishap. For Progress and ATV flights, this is how they end them, as there's no way to use the vehicle again and bringing it home would not be cost-effective. So they just destroy them safely.

[Mikodesirko]

Esse Jules Verne é muito massa!

[deerstalker999]

Best way to get rid of all that space station crap. BURN AND SINK.

[hellercom1912]

That thing that exploded was a propellant or oxigen tank.

[nathanmoeller]

Nothing's really 'exploding.' Sure, the fuel vaporizes and maybe combusts a little, but the bright flashes of light you see periodically are simply the visual effects of the fragments violently breaking apart due to the intense heat and stress on the pieces as they hit the atmosphere.

[ashsama2]

Yes, their charred feces are now spread over the pacific islands :)

(not likely _everything_ burned upp they said,

some could plunge into the ocean as well)

[SmooshyTheGrape]

I wish the camera work were better, but that is absolutely glorious nonetheless.

[Datan0de]

Beautiful!

[LordRyokashi]

And people say that comets are the greatest specacles in the sky... We can beat that! With explosions!

[fraseryt]

Hey man, where's the sound? (jk)

I love it, at 0:30, bang!

Also, since it had done it's job, was it just filled with astronaut turds and burnt up?

[nathanmoeller]

I agree. What a break up! Anyway, I believe the vehicle was empty. NASA deals with waste in other ways - usually just venting out into space. They usually bring most of their trash home aboard the space shuttle and dispose of it properly on the ground. That usually deals with technical parts that can be salvaged and reused later. There are, however, some things that can be sent into the atmosphere aboard the ATV and Progress vehicles like the one you saw here.

[spineboy]

Wow - that was beautiful, in a multi-million Euro kind of way.

Glad that was a successful test. (This is designed to break up on re-entry for the uninformed)