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

TB-44 underway

We're about an hour into TB-44, the Payload Functional, expected to complete between 8:00 and 9:00 tonight. After this will be LROC functional (TB-45), dumping data (TB-46), and Reaction Wheel Spindown (TB-47). The S-band functional (TB-48) is expected to start sometime after midnight.

Barbicane waited until half an hour had elapsed, which was more than enough to allow the instrument to fall to the level of the surrounding temperature.
From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne, 1865
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