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.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

LEND-ing a hand to Cold Operational Thermal Balance

Due to its low power and (relatively) large mass, the LEND Instrument supplied by our Russian partners is the slowest-moving instrument during thermal transitions.  In order to speed up the orbiter's transition to the thermal balance point, at 1:00 AM this morning (Sat 11/1)  we powered off the LEND Instrument.  We will leave LEND powered off (controlling LEND temps via the spacecraft's FSW-controlled heaters) until the LEND team is on station Saturday AM, then we will power up LEND and say "доброе утро!"
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