ATV-5 suspended

On 26 June 2014 the spacecraft ATV-5 is hoisted into position to be lowered on its 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.