IXV Flight Director Gehard Billig, at the mission control centre (MCC) at Altec in Turin, reports:

We are going through some routine checks at the MCC today; we will do some final data flow tests with the ground tracking stations. Everything looks good from our side; in a phone call with Kourou and the ship yesterday, the same was confirmed from the other teams. The control room is filling up again with engineers! We will stop early today, because we will start in the early tomorrow, before 6:00 CET.