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 15, 2008

Looking Ahead Through the Blades of Grass

Mission Rehearsal #1 is a tricky one. It transcends two, yes two, steps in the schedule.

Step 198 is the start which runs for 24 hours. Then step 199 is only a time to declare Hot Soak #4 without utilizing any time at all since it is an instantaneous event. However, we then have step 200 which is nothing more than a 12 hour continuation of Mission Rehearsal #1.

Thus Mission Rehearsal #1 will actually claim 36 hours of our lives and not just 24. The simulation will complete ~8:40 pm tomorrow night (Tuesday 12/16).

Following the rehearsal there are the cleanup activities (TC-201) and a desire to retest a simulated MCC (this will not require a configuration change of the spacecraft as the desire is to only see the burn). These activities should take about 2 hours.

Next on the schedule will be TC-202, the Payload Integrated Functional, which should begin around 11:00 pm on 12/16 and run for it’s usual 7 hours.
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