ATV-5 encased by rocket fairing

ATV-5 encased by rocket fairing in the BAF (Final Assembly Building), on 11 July 2014.

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.