[meteorite-list] ATV-5 To Reenter on February 27

[Ron Baalke]

February 6, 2015
     
NASA TV Coverage Set For Partner Space Station Cargo Spacecraft Activities

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure and the arrival 
of two cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) this month. 
The European Space Agency's (ESA) fifth and final Automated Transfer 
Vehicle (ATV-5) cargo craft will departure the station on Saturday, Feb. 14. 
Launch and docking of a Russian Progress resupply spacecraft will follow on 
Tuesday, Feb. 17.

NASA TV coverage of the ATV undocking will begin at 8:15 a.m. EST on Feb. 14. 
The "George Lemaitre" ATV-5, which arrived at the orbital laboratory 
last August, will undock from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 
8:41 a.m. After it undocks, the "Georges Lemaitre" will move to a safe 
distance from the station where it will stay for 13 days until it is 
deorbited on Friday, Feb. 27.

"Georges Lemaitre" is the fifth and final spacecraft in the series of 
European supply vehicles that began servicing the station in the spring of 
2008. In all, the ATVs delivered approximately 34 tons of supplies to the 
complex while docked to the station for 776 days. The ship's reentry into 
the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean will be documented by the 
Expedition 42 crew on board the station as well as NASA, ESA and other 
agencies around the world to gather detailed information on the mechanics of 
the breakup of a spacecraft reentering the Earth's atmosphere.

NASA TV coverage of the ISS Progress 58 spacecraft launch will begin at 5:45 
a.m. on Feb. 17. Docking coverage will begin at 11:30 a.m. The Progress will 
launch at 6 a.m. (5 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 
Kazakhstan with almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the 
station's Expedition 42 crew. Progress 58 will make its four-orbit, six-hour 
trip to the space station and dock at about noon.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv 

For more information about the International Space Station, and its crews and 
research, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station 

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Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
rachel.h.kraft at nasa.gov 

Dan Huot
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot at nasa.gov