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.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Instrument teams - no powerups imminent

For the Instrument teams supporting either on-site or at home via realtime telemetry streams - as you can tell, reaching the TB-36 Cold Survival Balance point is taking longer than expected.  This also pushes out the subsequent Propulsion Cold Fire test prior to the Instrument powerups for TB-40 - Orbiter Cold Start, with the Payload Functional happening about a shift later.

Matt is recommending that the Instrument teams check in to this blog or the 301-286-8291 hotline around mid-day to get a better forecast on when TB-40 is likely to occur.  Doesn't seem probable until evening.

"I hate waiting".
Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
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