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

T-Vac Status - 10/26/08 @5:50pm

We reached 5x10-5 torr on vacuum at 16:55z. Thermal flooded the shroud and we are currently monitoring the temperatures on the shroud. Once we see the temperatures going cold, we will start step TB-18 and TB-19. The following components will be turned on in those steps:

  • SA GCE ON and Indexed
  • HGA GCE ON and Home
  • Wheels powered and override set to 53 rps
  • LROC powered up
  • DLRE powered up and safed
  • Spacecraft breakwires will be set to operational and PDE inhibits will be removed
  • S-Band transmitter will be turned on and configured for RF telemetry & commanding
Once TB-18 adn TB-19 are completed, we will review the configuration and start the 28-hr barker timer test.
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