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, November 2, 2008

All Instruments powered off for survival balance

As of 1:02 EDT this morning, all Instruments have been powered off and safely tucked into bed for the cold dark night known as the survival cold balance (shiver, shiver). 

Payload will trust that the spacecraft will keep us warm (enough) until time to wake up again for Cold Start.

To Instrument teams - remember that payload remains off for the Propulsion Cold Fire Test which follows survival balance, so the next Instrument power on is at TB-40, Orbiter Cold Start. Please check back here or on the hotline for updates on the Orbiter Cold Start time.
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