The ship Albert Einstein ends

Europe's fourth transport spacecraft carries a record volume of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) leaving the station and ending the "mission" by burning in the Earth's atmosphere, AFP said. .

>>>Ship Albert Einstein connected to the space station

The ship containing 6 tons of waste from ISS left the US $ 100 billion space station on the evening of October 28 (US time), the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said in a statement.

Named Albert Einstein, the father of relativity, Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is scheduled to crash into the Earth's atmosphere on November 2. Most ships and garbage will be burned in space, the rest will bury under the Pacific Ocean.

The ship Albert Einstein left ISS and ended the mission "resupply" - (Photo: ESA)

The Albert Einstein ship, which weighed nearly 20.2 tons (equivalent to a 10-meter double-decker bus), 4.5 meters in diameter, was launched into space on August 5 by the European Space Agency (ESA). 6 from Kourou Space Center in Guiana (French).

The ship carried a record number of 6.6 tons, including water, food, clothing, oxygen, fuel . to connect with ISS on June 15.

In addition to the mission of supplying goods to ISS and collecting waste, the ATV fleet also performs an important task to help push the station to a higher orbit.

On October 24, the Albert Einstein ship helped push ISS by nearly 1km, to compensate for the lack of station height due to Earth's gravity, thereby facilitating the connection of Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft (Russia) brought 3 astronauts to ISS in November.

Reportedly, before the Albert Einstein ship, ESA also sent three supply ships to the ISS, including the ATV-3, Edoardo Amaldi (launched March 23, 2012), the ATV-2 named Johannes Kepler ( launched on February 16, 2011) and the ATV-1 named Jules Verne (launched March 9, 2008).

Following Albert Einstein, the fifth and final European supply vessel, ATV-5, named George Lemaitre, the father of the Big Bang theory, is expected to fly into space in 2014.