This blog follows the progress of the LRO mission through Integration and Testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and launch site processing at KSC\Astrotech. Its purpose is to enable communication to the entire LRO Team about the status of ongoing activities.

LRO was launched June 18th, 2009 at 5:32pm EDT from KSC. This BLOG will follow the progress of the mission as LRO travels to the Moon and establishes orbit around it.

This BLOG will be periodically updated during LRO's early mission but as the nominal mission unfolds the official NASA LRO website and the LRO Science Instrument's own websites will evolve into a more interesting sources of LRO science results as postings appear there first and LRO engineering and operations (source of this site) will become increasingly routine.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

I&T Update Email for COB Saturday

This is an update of the activities on the LRO I&T program.:
The spacecraft has been in the EMI/EMC test for 24 hours.
We have completed 6 of the 9 "LOOPS" or test configurations.
We have been attempting to run Loop 7 for the better part of the Saturday evening shift. We have not been successful. We have been experiencing problems with the Ground System Receiver; the CORTEX unit. We have not been able to receive and process the K band, data at the 25 Mbps downlink rate. Earlier we were able to receive and process the K band data at the 100 and 50 Mbps rates. We tried resetting the receiver with little success. The testing was halted at 9:00 PM. Testing will resume on Tuesday 9/2/2008 at 8:00 AM
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