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, November 4, 2008

Counting (schedule) chickens before they hatch

Just after the previous post, we ran into an anomaly that cost a couple of hours in the schedule.  A reaction wheel condition-check caused a series of RTSes to trip that among other consequences powered off all of the Instruments. 

We re-ran the Instrument powerup section from the Cold-Start proc to get back into the proper powered configuration, and as of 6:45 AM we're back into the SC-trending proc.

After completing the SC-trending proc, we'll configure for Cold Soak and drive the temps to the soak condition.

This nominally would push the start of the Payload Functional back to around 14:00 or so. Please check back either here on the blog or on the 6-8291 hotline for an update around lunchtime.

"Master Luke, Sir, it's so good to see you fully functional again. R2 expresses his relief also" - C3P0



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