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.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

We are closer o chamber pump down then we have ever been!

As of 5:00 PM today, we are running the Mini-RF experiment checkout, which will run for another hour. At approx. 6:00 PM, we can start the GDS software tests which will run for at least 4 hours. Following the GDS test, we can start the LOLA functional tests (no earlier than 10:00 PM). This puts us about an hour behind our schedule from this morning; meaning that we will probably start the pump down for the Thermal Cycle segment of the test, around 0600 tomorrow morning 11/14/2008.
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