14 DAY TRIAL // Amateur photographer Oliver Broadie has just released this amazing image showing the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV) Albert Einstein as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere, on its way to a fiery death.
ATV-4 undocked from the International Space Station on October 28, at 08:55 GMT, and was immediately inserted into a safer orbit, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the space lab. It eventually burned up in Earth's atmosphere on November 2.
This image, maybe one of the last ever taken of Albert Einstein, was snapped from Sukhothai, Thaiand, on November 2, at 18:35 local time. When ATV-class spacecraft finish their resupply missions to the ISS, they are deorbited and destroyed over uninhabited areas of the southern Pacific Ocean.
This spacecraft was the heaviest of its kind, ESA experts say. When it launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, on June 5, it weighed around 20 tonnes, and set a record for the heaviest vehicle ever to take off with this delivery system, Universe Today reports.