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 22, 2008

Transition from cold to hot

We have completed the MOC testing (TC-68) around midnight. We completed a Mini-RF calibration run. We have a few hours before we reach hot soak temperatures.

We continue to run orbit cycling (TC-61) and have started WAC background(TC-69) and NAC background(TC-70) while awaiting hot soak to be declared.

Once we reach hot soak we'll run TC-73, 74, 75 etc. We won't run TC-72 (Integrated Payload Functional) until 1st shift, to allow instrument support personnel to be on console.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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