As reported by ESA’s Jean-Michel Bois: ATV is in excellent shape and operating nominally! Trivia to help you channel your inner spacecraft operations engineer: ATV-5 fuel used so far? 622kg (approx.)

Image taken by crew on board the ISS as ATV-5 passes just 7 km beneath during the night of 8/9 August 2014. Credit: ESA/NASA

Image taken by crew on board the ISS as ATV-5 passes just 7 km beneath during the night of 8/9 August 2014. Credit: ESA/NASA

Tomorrow is D-Day: docking time has been shifted somewhat (by 1 second!) to 13:30:00 GMT (15:30:00 CEST).

After docking, pre-scrubbing of ATV’s atmosphere and initial ingress are set for 13 August and the first OCS (orbital correction system – aka, main thrusters) reboost test will take place on 14 August. The first potential reboost is not until 27 August; as always with a real-time mission, all dates/times are subject to change.