A few minutes ago Jules Verne ATV received the go for next phase - CLOSING. During CLOSING, ATV is transferred by 4 burns from the S2 station keeping point to S3 (249 m away from ISS). The first CLOSING boost is underway. Read more in Daniels previous post at the same point during Demo Day 2
-- Maria

On the ATV-CC voice loop we just heard "HOLD and RETREAT commands are correct" ... Today these are test commands sent to Jules Verne to make sure that they are being received properly. The news is - they were received ok.
-- Maria

The data received from the Kurs radar-based system has just appeared on the Simvol.
-- Maria

We can see ATV on screen in the ATV-CC, as imaged from the ISS. It's just a faint dot (see red circle), but she's looking quite beautiful today! At this time, the range was about 9,000 m -- Daniel

The Simvol screen used by the ISS crew to monitor the approach of ATV is visible here in ATV-CC. It just started showing the distance to go according to the GPS navigation... right now just reaching the 20 km mark... Below is a photo I took a few minutes ago (sorry its a bit fuzzy!)
-- Maria

We're following the voice loops here in the ATV Control Room. The last update given was "the red button CAM is activated". This means that the red button the crew have on their console on board ISS to initiate a Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre (CAM) is activated.
-- Maria

Jules Verne reached station point S-1/2, located 39 km from the ISS, at 12:31:58 CEST. This marks the formal start of today's rendezvous & docking! -- Daniel

Jules Verne and the ISS are now in direct communication; the proximity link handles the relative GPS navigation data, among others.

So far this morning, Jules Verne has been conducting a series of thrusts to position itself for the start of today's docking attempt at station-keeping point S-1/2. -- Daniel