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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The last Balance

At 4:20pm Dec 17 a date that will live in infamy, thermal has called the last and final Balance. At the moment are trying to drive LROC (NAC) to 29 degrees and start TC-211 LROC Collimator Test. That test only takes 10mins but we are still not sure when we will be able to start it. We will do trending after that, trending run for 1.5 hours. Then we will start transitioning to ambient. During transitioning we will be doing some Star tracker and PDE investigation. I'll have a better idea on when we start trending in about an hour. Stay tune
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