The European Space Agency named its fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory.
Since 2008, an ATV delivers about 6 tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station every year and a half. It remains attached to the station for up to six months before re-entering the atmosphere and deliberately burning up together with several tonnes of station waste.
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