ESA Mission Director Thomas Beck at ATV-CC sent in this report earlier this morning.

Today’s set of manoeuvres has been completed successfully (details below). After the fly-under on Friday, these manoeuvres lifted ATV today above the ISS in order to make the vessel slowly drift behind the Station.

By the time of the next set of manoeuvres planned for Monday, ATV’s orbit will be lowered again to below the ISS altitude in order to make the freighter drift towards the Station. A single manoeuvre will then place ATV into the hold point S-1/2 (5 km behind, 39 km below ISS) marking the end of phasing operations.

TA-1
Ignition time: 03:19:02
Duration: 62 secs
Targeted delta velocity: 3.300 m/sec
Propulsion by main engines M2 and M4
Achieved accuracy as derived from accelerometers: -0.38 %

TA-2
Ignition time: 04:04:54
Duration: 99 secs
Targeted delta velocity: 5.197 m/sec
Propulsion by main engines M2 and M4
Achieved accuracy as derived from accelerometers: – 0.26 %

TA-3
Ignition time: 04:50:42
Duration: 177 secs
Targeted delta velocity: 1.378 m/sec
Propulsion by ACS thrusters
Achieved accuracy as derived from accelerometers: +1.3 %