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.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Make Your Saturday Plans with LRO

TC-179, Configure Instruments, completed at 12:44 am.
TC-180, DLRE Field of Regard Thermal Mapping, which runs in parallel with other activities, was started at 12:45 am.
TC-181 and TC-182, LROC B/G Imaging, procedures were started at 12:52 am will continue to run in the background.

At 12:55 am, the RW Torque Override Commanded was sent to command all the torques to zero. This was done at the request of thermal to help cool down the spacecraft a little faster.

And we continue on our path to Cold Soak #4. The Orbiter should be in cold soak conditions just in time for brunch.

My magic eight ball is also telling me that the Payload Functional, TC-186, will be executed later today around 3:00 pm.
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