Charlotte Breskow reports: The ATV is ON. Gyros are warming up. Perfect time for a little break since their warm-up time is about 1 hour!

ESA’s ATV Programme Manager Nico Dettmann on console this afternoon in Kourou’s Jupiter Control Room

External view of Jupiter

Astrium’s Olivier de la Bourdonnaye
and Wolfgang Paetcsh – Astrium is maker of the ATVs

14 Feb: Check-out of the communications equipment between ATV and
the EGSE – the box that connects ATV-CC to ATV (inspection of racks located inside the launch table)