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 15, 2008

LRO moves into TC-19; Configure for Hot Start

We have finished up the recovery from the Barker command Test. We have moved on through TC-17 and 18,. we are now in TC-19, Configuring for Hot Start. Hot start will occur in aboout an hour; approx. 10:50 PM. This will allow us to move into Hot Soak #1 and start configuring for the Orbiter Functional Test. It looks like the Orbiter Functional Test, TC-23, will start arount 1:30 AM Tomorrow morning 11/16/2008 The Orbiter functional Test runs for about 18 hours.
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