We asked the editorial team working on the ATV Blog to introduce themselves.

Daniel Scuka, ESA Web editorDaniel Scuka

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Daniel Scuka has worked as Web editor at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, since 2004. As part of the ESA Web portal team, he reports for the ESA Spacecraft Operations site and covers activities at ESOC and other ESA establishments. As an ESA blog editor, he has covered Rosetta's November 2007 Earth swing-by and September 2008 asteroid Steins fly-by, the launch and docking of Columbus in December 2007 and February 2008, and the launch, cruise and docking of ATV in April 2008. For Jules Verne's last journey, he is working from the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse.

Maria Bennett

Maria Bennett is web editor on the European Space Agency's Web portal team, where she oversees ESA's Human Spaceflight, Exploration and Microgravity website. She is based at the European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, in the Netherlands. She previously blogged for Thomas Reiter's ISS spacewalk on 3 August 2006 and for the Columbus Mission in February 2008. For the ATV Blog, she'll work from ESTEC and from the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse.