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.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Pre-Pump Down Status

Despite my hopes to get to pump down today, Dave and I determined we would not make an 8pm pump down tonight. We had some hiccups getting started this morning after compiling the database.

Also, the chamber folks are troubleshooting a harness heater.

Plan for today is to wait for the chamber folks to fix the heater problem, install the LEND source, run the LEND functional and then verify the LROC collimator has not been disturbed.

In between, we will be dry running the SAS Orbit Cycling proc, LROC background procs, Lunar Eclipse proc, and loading the DS table & RTS 86 update. Also need to install an ITOS patch. We will run into 3rd shift if we have to, to complete these activities. Phil, call Rick on 2nd to see if you need to come in.

Sunday morning at 7am, we will begin with the Launch Day Procedure (2hrs) and then begin pump down (around 9am).

So far today, we have updated the database and rerun the Hot Orbit Transient. We have started the load of the DS filter table and RTS 86 update.
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