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, November 5, 2008

Currently in TB-48 S-Band Testing

We are currently running TB-48, the S-Band test. Due to a proc error, we need to rerun TB-45, the LROC Functional and TB-47, the RWA Spin Down tests. During the LROC functional, the data path was not switched to LROC from MRF, and not data was recorded. During the RWA spin down test, the over ride timing ran out and the FSW started to spin up the wheels before the end of the test. Oops...

Plan is to finish the S-band test (about 12 noon) and then rerun the RWA Spin Down Test and parts of the LROC test in parallel.

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