This just in from ESA’s Mike Steinkopf at ATV-CC, who sat on duty as mission director for de-orbiting tonight:

Deorbit burn No. 2 was successful. ATV-3 has nominally performed its destructive re-entry. Mission accomplished! ATV-3 was a record-setting mission, the longest mission with some new challenges we had to overcome. Even if Edoardo Amaldi was the third ATV mission, this simply shows that in space operations, nothing becomes a routine. Now the ATV-CC team is happy but tired and looking forward to get some rest! ATV-3 is gone but ATV Albert Einstein is already in Kourou…