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.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

T-Vac Status 10.29.2008 9:38pm

Currently we are in TB-24 Configuring for Hot Orbit Transient. The bottom of the shroud is flooded and the walls are being flooded at this time. The chamber should be ready at ~10:00 PM this evening to begin TB-25, the Hot Orbit Transient Testing.
During the configuration change to lower the battery voltage to 32 volts, Action Point 8 triggered at 08:304:22;12;50 GMT (long battery discharge) which triggered a cascade of other resets. This put the Orbiter in a safe configuration but because this left the GDS in limbo (and thus indicating open break wires) the NEAs were fired. The Orbiter configuration has been restored and we continue toward the start of TB-25. See PR # 680.


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