14 DAY TRIAL // Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that Edoardo Amaldi, the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3), successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, September 28.
The maneuver was completed at 2144 GMT (23:44 CEST), and was coordinated from the Toulouse, France-based ATV Control Center. Additional assistance was provided by experts in Moscow, the Russian Federation, and Houston, Texas, in the United States.
ATV-3 was supposed to undock from the ISS a couple of days ago, but a glitch affecting a laptop computer inside the station prevented the operation from concluding successfully. The spacecraft was docked on the aft port of the Russian-built Zvevda module.
The resupply capsule was launched on March 23 aboard an Ariane SES rocket, from the Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 3 (ELA3) launch pad at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America.