An update from Charlotte Beskow: Overhead in Kourou yesterday, where teams are hard at work to get ATV-5 ready for flight – Ed.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS WILL START IN THE AREA S5C – S5B. ALL PERSONS NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN ATV TRANSFER PLEASE CLEAR THE AREA.

So: ATV-5 is ready to be moved. In a few minutes, it will start moving down the corridor linking the S5C area, where we have prepared it so far, to S5B, where fuelling and gas loading operations take place. These will start Monday morning.

ATV-5 ready to move from S5C to S5B - where fuelling will take place - at Kourou on 15 May 2014. Credit: ESA

ATV-5 ready to move from S5C to S5B – where fuelling will take place – at Kourou on 15 May 2014. Credit: ESA