ATV-4 is operating according to plan, according to the 9 June update from Jean-Michel Bois, Head of the ESA Operations team at ATV-CC. Teams continue monitoring the vessel in orbit and carrying out various health checks and on-board procedures.

The next interesting set of activities comes today at 16:29 CEST, when the  first of a series of TPO (Transfer to Phasing Orbit) manoeuvres (engine burns) is set to take place.

Note as always: All dates/timings below are forecast only and are subject to change as this is a continuing, dynamic mission. Time below indicated in UTC.

GENERAL STATUS
   ·  No change . All nominal. ATV-CC monitoring and routine activities in
      freeflight

ATV STATUS
   ·  All subsystems nominal.

ATV-CC STATUS and ATV GROUND SEGMENT
   ·  All ATV-CC systems nominal

EXECUTED OPERATIONS
   ·  Permanent monitoring and routine freeflight activities
   ·  VDM decontamination, STR self-test during first eclipse

NEXT OPERATIONS. MAIN ACTIVITIES
   ·  till June 10, freeflight with monitoring and routine activities
   ·  June 10 : Second part of LEOP (SADM cleaning 05:23:17 UTC)
   ·  June 10 : TPO manoeuvres (first boost 14:29:53)
   ·  June 11 : CAM test 15:30:00
   ·  June 11 : Progress 51P undocking 13:56:00
   ·  June 13 : Probe pull-out 13:50:00
   ·  June 14 : TIV manoeuvres (first boost 11:23:26)
   ·  June 15 : S-1/2 09:38:10
   ·  June 15 : ATV Docking at 13:46:10 UTC
   ·  June 17 : Initial Ingress. Hatch opening 10:30:00
   ·  June 17 or 18 : Final Ingress
   ·  June 19 : OCS test 12:53:57
   ·  June 23 : ATV hatch closure (preparation for EVA)
   ·  June 25 : ATV hatch opening
   ·  July 10 : Reboost manoeuvre #01 (tbc)
   ·  August 02 : First Gas Transfer (tbc)
   ·  TBD : fuel transfer