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.




Friday, October 24, 2008

Pre-Thermal Balance Testing (Continues)

We are continuing our pre-thermal balance testing with Mini-RF activities. We completed the LEND background functional test (TB-05). We should be done with Mini-RF tonight. Pre-Balance activities will continue tomorrow which include:

  • Verifying new ITOS release (being installed tonight)
  • Load FSW files to EEPROM (new DS destination/filter table and RTS #86)
  • Test procedures for Lunar Eclipse, LROC background imaging, Orbiter Sim Background procedure, and spacecraft off
  • Install the LEND radiation source and perform LEND Long Functional

Once the above activities are complete, the Launch Day procedure should take approximately 2 hrs after which chamber pump down can start.

1 comment:

Joanne said...

See webcam: "Clorox disinfecting wipes. Cleans your workstation and all you socket connections."