Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission yesterday with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific. Following a final deorbit burn at 14:58 CEST, which slowed its velocity by 70 m/s, the ATV entered the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 120 km at 15:31 CEST. The spacecraft broke up at an altitude of 75 km with the remaining fragments falling into the Pacific some 12 minutes later. The ATV has proven what a key ISS logistics vehicle it is. Following its March 9th launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, the ATV delivered 6 tons of cargo to the International Space Station, to which it remained docked for five months. This included ISS reboost and refuelling propellants, water, oxygen and 1.3 tonnes of dry cargo including food, clothing, spares and other items. During its mission, the ATV displayed the full range of its capabilities, including automatic rendezvous & docking, four ISS reboosts to a higher orbital altitude to offset atmospheric drag, ISS attitude control, performing a collision-avoidance maneuver when fragments of an old satellite came within the ISS' vicinity, and, on its final journey, offloading 2-1/2 tons of waste. Nice when a mission "flawless."