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.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

T-Vac Update

Approaching hot thermal balance point which will occur on upcoming third shift. Once thermal balance is achieved there is a four hour dwell then the shrouds will be flooded in preparation for transient testing. Everything continues to be nominal. LROC continues to periodically request WAC images. SAS gimbal temperatures continue to be closely monitored while the investigation of the higher than expected temepratures (below red limit) continues.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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