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.




Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Aloha!!

Aloha LRO Team!!
Time to start the blogging....T-1 day to TVAC, are you ready?

1 comment:

cbaker said...

We are investigating further heater burnup issues. The ones on the Heater Plates only saw 1.25 W/in^2 and still debonded. Paint outgassing looks to be the cause. We are lowering the Watt density further and proceeding. The heater on the Titanium flexures are a bit more surprising as they were small heaters that only saw 2.5 W/in^2. The only credible explanation is that they couldn't conduct away with the titanium. We will need to lower the Watt density on these also, but this can be tricky.