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 16, 2008

MR1 Update 12/16/08 @ 7:30 am ET

MR1 is ongoing (TC-198).

We completed Pass 16 from the Station Schedule Table.
Pass 16 Completion 12/16/08 @ ~7:00 am ET. -> Final Pass (24) Completion prediction 12/16/08 @ ~9:00 pm ET

Other Notable Updates:
1) We completed the 4hr balance for the SAS Gimbal for 4.3A per segment, and subsequently set the SAS current to 3.8A per segment on 12/16/08 @ ~2:30 a.m ET

2) Started Orbit Simulation on 12/16/08 @ ~2:40 a.m. ET

3) It is anticipated by Thermal that we will declare the 24 hr Hot Soak #4 mid afternoon.

Seems as if we have we’ve found some momentum. See attached for cartoon metaphor.


Josh
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