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.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Mid Day Update on a Beautiful Sunday Afternoon

The Orbiter Trending (TC-82) which was started at 7:10am wrapped up at 8:45am.

In anticipation of instrument testing, the LEND instrument was then turned on and configured from 9:00 to 9:10am. This was immediately followed without delay by configuring the LOLA instrument to begin firing it’s laser.

After a cup of coffee and a little warm up time, we began the LEND Functional (TC-80) at 10:10am. This functional was completed at 11:40am followed by retrieval of the data for the instrument team.

Now it is time for the LOLA show. We have just started the LOLA Functional (TC-130) at 11:52am and this is expected to run for about an hour. Following this is then about 8 hours or so of LOLA and LR CPT’s.
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