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, December 16, 2008

As Fate Would Have It…

The Mission Rehearsal has run into a snag. At ~4:10 pm Action Point 30, Observing Sun Position Error, tripped causing the orbiter to go into sun safe. This has brought the simulation to it’s knees and will thus be terminating early.

At current time, we are performing some cleanup activities to close out the simulation steps (TC-198 and TC-200). We will then move into the inserted test for the PDE MCC & LOI burns.


TC-202, the Payload Integrated Functional, might commence as early as 8:00 pm tonight due to our unexpected schedule modification.
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