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, October 26, 2008

LRO Moves into TB18 & TB19

At 17:55 were finally started the TB18 and TB19 Tests. These tests configure the Orbiter for the Hot Case Thermal Balance Test. It also configures the Orbiter for the 28 Hour Barker Code test (TB 20). We do not plan on sending any more commands to the Orbiter for the next 28 hours to allow the C&DH to reset. If we find that commands are required to reconfigure the Orbiter to better enter Hot Balance, the 28 hour "no command" window for TB 20 must be restarted.
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