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 8, 2008

November 8, 2008 @3:30 PM
We have completed the following: Installation of the LVA cold ring,
installation of the Star Tracker Stimulus with heaters and thermocouples, installation LOLA shower head with heaters and thermocouples, but without the fiber optic cables; they will be installed on Monday, additional thermocouples were installed on the propulsion system cat bed heaters.
At this point we are still working on modifications to the Solar Array Gimbal thermal hardware; we are removing some blankets, installing Kapton tape on the harness and adding some heaters to the gimbal assembly. This activity will consume the remainder of the day. Other blanket work is going on in parallel to this task.
There is no work scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday 11/9/2008; we will resume chamber break activities on Monday morning, 11/9/2008.
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