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.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Completed TB18 and TB19

The shroud temperature approached -70C around 2:30AM. At that point we completed executing TB-18 and TB-19. New during this shift:
  • HGA GCE is on and initialized
  • SA GCE is on and initialized
  • DLRE is on and safed
  • LROC is on
  • We are RF commanding and telemetering
The two issues arose during 2nd shift.
  • The configuration H LROC FSW heater setpoints for LROC caused panel temperatures to increase dramatically. New FSW heater setpoints have been loaded to the spacecraft, sneaking the temperature up slowly and carefully.
  • The use of all 14 SAS segments through the gimbals before the shroud reached low temperatures caused the SA gimbal actuator temperature to climb. We have reduced the number of segments and will continue to add and monitor situation.
We intend to complete a recorder dump on S-band and then begin the 28 hour clock.
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