While I was at ESTEC on June 28, 2007, for the ATV press day. In the Erasmus building I found the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD). Here some info about ARD and photo's I took of it.

"ARD was released during the Ariane 503 flight on 21 October 1998, shortly after separation of the launcher's cryogenic main stage (at an altitude of about 216 km) 12 minutes after lift-off from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ARD reached an altitude of 830 km and splashed down to within 4.9 km of its target point in the Pacific Ocean between the Marquises and Hawaii after one hour and 41 minutes. It was recovered some five hours later. During reentry the heatshield temperature reached 900°C and the cone and heatshield thermal protection was in a perfect state after retrieval. Throughout the flight ARD remained airtight and perfectly intact."

All Photo's: Jacques van Oene.

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ATV test model ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands April 09, 2002.
ESA's SMART-1 satellite ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands April 03, 2003.
Mars Express launch event Noordwijk Space Expo, The Netherlands June 02, 2003.
SMART-1 launch event Noordwijk Space Expo, The Netherlands 28 September 2003.
18 October 2003 Soyuz TMA-3 launch event.
Soyuz TMA-1 crew Noordwijk Space Expo, The Netherlands, July 07, 2003.
André Kuipers Noordwijk Space Expo, The Netherlands, November 07, 2003.
Galileo GIOVE A media day ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 09 November 2005
Lodewijk van den Berg and Andre Kuipers Public event, Middelburg The Netherlands, 19 November 2005.
STS-116 crew visit ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands April 18, 2007.
Buzz Aldrin Delft, The Netherlands, 13 March 2007.
GIOVE-B Satellite ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands March 05, 2008.
Buran OK-GLI Rotterdam, The Netherlands April 05, 2008.