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 25, 2008

What next?

After we have recovered from the sim, thermal will tell the facility folks to bring the shroud to ambient. It should take about 2 hours or so to get the shroud to above 0 deg. Once the shroud reaches zero, we can power down the spacecraft. All console support, except thermal is excused.

It should take about 9-12 hours to get the chamber to the point where we can open the door. So door opening could happen around 2p-5p on 11/25. We will try to get the source out and start panel removal if we have time.

We will have an 8am on Wed.

“"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."” - Winnie the Pooh
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