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.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Cold Svrvival Survival Balance (TC-105) is Complete!!!

The thermal team has reviewed their data and decided that we have successfully completed the requirements for the Cold Survival Balance (TC-105). Survival Balance was declared over at 2:30 PM today, 12/8/2008.
We are now configuring for the Cold Soak Balance #3 (TC-106). This process will take about an hour after which we will continue with the transisition to Cold Soak (TC-107). This transistion should take about 4-5 hours.
When we reach soak temperature, (estimated to be 7:30-8:00 PM) we can perform the Orbiter Trending Test and the LROC Collimator Test, And LROC b/G Imaging Test. (TC-108, 109,& 110); (estimated elaspsed time is 2 hours). Following these tests we will run the LOLA tests.
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