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.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Back in Black

We have successfully tested the "emergency power-down GSE to power the HGAS heaters" configuration. It works great.

We also made the quickest possible entry into the white room to fetch the soldering iron etc. to repair the SAS rack. A connector had decided that today would be a good day to wear out. We bypassed the offending connector and soldered the wire to the board. We've re-powered the spacecraft and the SAS rack works great.

We will now begin to cool the shrouds rerun the transition (TC-99) and when appropriate we'll begin DLRE field of regard thermal mapping test (TC-100), expected to take until about about 6.5 to 7 hours.

That means that the FSW load (TC-101) will be no earlier than 10:00AM, sleep in.
That also means that the DSB Memory Test (TC-102) will be no earlier than Noon. sleep in and have a big breakfast.

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll
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