ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle, will be launched today, 16 February 2011, at 21:50 GMT (22:50 CET) by an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou to deliver critical supplies and reboost the International Space Station. According to current mission planning, Johannes Kepler will dock with the Space Station on Thursday, 24 February, and stay in orbit for almost four months.