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

TB23 continues

As of 10/29/2008 @0600 the LRO has yet to achieve Hot Case Thermal Balance (Test #TB23). The propulsion system has not stablized in temperature. Once temperature stablization is achieved, we still need 4 hours of hot case thermal balance test data before we can move on the Hot Lunar Transient Test (Test #TB24).

Posted by Rex Richardson

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