ATV-5 roll-out from the CCU3

On 24 June 2014 the spacecraft ATV-5, was rolled out from the CCU3 (the payload transport container) and prepared for integration with the Ariane 5 launcher in the BAF (Final Assembly Building).

ESA’s fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, Georges Lemaître, will deliver more than 2600 kg of dry cargo to the International Space Station; its launch is set for summer 2014 on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.