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 9, 2008

Cold Operational Balance, TC-147, is Complete

AS of 10:45 PM, 12/9/2008, the thermal team has declared that the Cold Operational Balance (TC-148) is complete. We are starting the transition to Hot Balance, TC-149, in parallel with the transition, we will perform the Mini RF Calibration, TC-150. The Mini RF team wants to perform their test with the instrument at +5 degrees C, so we will delay starting the test until the instrument is closer to that temparature. Following the Mini RF test we can proceed to the mission simulation #30, TC-151; somewhere around 1:00 AM tomorrow morning 12/10/2008
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