“ATV Operations and Ground Segment ready for launch”
ESA Mission Director Jean-Michel Bois has just sent the first of a series of daily ‘ATV Mission Reports’ to keep teams at ESA, NASA and elsewhere up to date on daily operations at ATV-CC. A brief extract is below. Note that the details here relate to real-time operational activities and may be subject to change.
(Editor’s note: Wow! It’s not every day that we get CC’d on e-mail addressed to the DG…)
GENERAL STATUS
- ATV Ops and Ground Segment ready for launch
- Successful Launch Readiness Review (LRR) – 31 May 2013 (OK)
- IMMT 3 June 2013: ESA and ISS international partners are GO for ATV-4 launch & docking
- RAL (Kourou launch readiness review): Ariane 5, CSG and ATV vehicle are GO
ATV STATUS
- Ready for flight
ATV-CC STATUS and ATV GROUND SEGMENT
- All ATV-CC systems nominal
- All teams trained and ready
- Fraunhofer/FHR – TIRA radar support ready
- TDRS and Artemis communication reservations done and OK
NEXT OPERATIONS. MAIN ACTIVITIES
- June 05 : Start ATV-CC prelaunch activities on console H0-16h : 05:42:00 UTC
- June 05 : ATV-4 Launch at 21:52:11 UTC / separation 22:56:04 UTC
Discussion: 2 comments
ATV-4, not 3, wrongly typed in the section NEXT OPERATIONS.
Hi Daniel: Fixed! thanks… you have unwittingly pointed out that even at ESA we sometimes copy & paste from last year’s version… 🙂 — Daniel