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.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

T-Vac Status 1:05am 11.04.2008

We are currently still in TB-40 Cold Start. A problem was encountered with Star Tracker #1 (PR692), the problem being ST1 cannot be put in Standby Mode as the proc commands and cycles back to Init mode. Some time was spent investigating this to see if the problem was bus voltage or temperature dependent, with no joy. ST2 behaved nominally. At this point progress thru TB-40 has resumed with CRaTER power up. This will be followed by Orbiter Trending (TB-41) and Cold Soak #1 (TB-42,43) and then the Payload Integrated Functional (TB-44) NET 8:00am on 11.04.2008.

ACS is now investigating and maintaining PR692.

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again - Haitian proverb
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