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.




Thursday, November 6, 2008

Going Ambient!

At 11am today, we ran sc_thermalcfg("K") to start the transition to ambient temperatures.  The thermal fixture was set to 20C (it'll take a while to get there), the shroud is set to -100C, and the cold finger is on.  We're spinning the wheels up, holding, then spinning them down in the opposite direction, and taking LROC images in the background.


"We do not claim that the portrait we present here is a true one, only that it comes close."  Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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