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

11/04 4:30 EST: TB-40 Orbiter Cold Start is complete!

Took a bit longer than predicted but Orbiter Cold Start is complete and we are now in TB-41, Orbiter trending.

Two anomalies during the cold start will need further followup: Trackers at powerup didn't want to go into standby, and one of the four LEND external sensor heaters didn't enable as expected until they had been hard-commanded ON.  Both will result in PRB-reports.

Still too early to predict the start time of the Payload Functional.

"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black" - Senator John McCain, quoting Chairman Mao

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