The European Space Agency (ESA) said that its last supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS) has been destroyed.

ATV-5 of the European Space Agency was deliberately destroyed and it plunged back into atmosphere of the Earth on Sunday. The last of its type, the unmanned spacecraft reached to end at 1:11 p. m. ET. Since last August, the Automated Transfer Vehicle had been docked at the International Space Station.

Developed by ESA, ATV-5 logged a total of 186 days in space. According to the agency, unpacked of its 7 tons of supplies and reloaded with 2.4 tons of waste, the Georges Lemaitre, completed its mission. In future, visiting vehicles are not going to include the European ATV. The space station will be resupplied by Russian Progress vehicles, US commercial Cygnus and Dragon freighters and Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle.

Nico Dettmann, head of ESA's space transportation department, said that the five ATVs have paid obligation of ESA in the ISS program until 2017. "It has been decided to discontinue ATV, but to develop the MPCV-ESM (European Service Module) for NASA to compensate for ESA's ISS obligations until 2020", added Nico Dettmann.