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The plan was for the last payloads to separate from second stage and deorbit along with it. That was the delivery.

  35:13
  end of this the upper stage will flip in space and restart the Vinci engine to 
  break and set itself on a collision
  35:19
  course with Earth burning up in our atmosphere and limiting space debris but   
  before it touches atmosphere two
  35:26
  capsules are set to detach and had on their own mission to survive the extreme     
  temperatures of the re-entry and all
  35:32
  three elements will then splash down in the Pacific Ocean far away from 
  civilization this will end our mission
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  4:42:58
  according to this new situation which means that the Vinci engine decided not
  4:43:04
  to restart because there was no ipu uh operating so he was not in a good 
  condition to restart and so there was a
  4:43:12
  passivation of the upper stage which was triggered in order to make it an object
  4:43:18
  which does not create um dangers of debris and the passivation works
  4:43:25
  perfectly according to plan uh and also it was the the launcher system decided
  4:43:32
  automatically not to to release the two capsules the two passengers because it
  4:43:39
  would have created additional debr and so uh we have an event which is not
  4:43:44
  understood yet which is why did the Apu stop but all the rest of the mission was
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0. https://youtu.be/B0oFpOJaIYc?t=2113

1. https://youtu.be/B0oFpOJaIYc?t=16978




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