“ATV Operations and Ground Segment ready for launch”

Jean-Michel Bois at ATV-CC

Jean-Michel Bois at ATV-CC

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