ATV-CC full team on console for Dragon-4 berthing

Dragon-4 seen from Space Station. Credits: NASA-TV

For today’s grapple and berthing of SpaceX Dragon-4 a full team is ‘on console’ at the ATV control centre in Toulouse, France, to participate in today’s manoevres. ATV Georges Lemaître‘s solar panels have been put into a fixed position and ATV-CC is monitoring the berthing.

As the International Space Station has to manoeuvre to a special attitude for the berthing, ATV was prepared for this by rotating its solar wings to a safe position and ensuring that the amount of electrical power received from the Space Station is sufficient to compensate for the effects of the special berthing attitude.