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.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

TC-164 S-Band Functional Test Continues

As of 11:00 PM on 12/11/2008, we are still running the S-Band Functional Test. TC-164. This test started at 5:00 PM this evening and is scheduled to take 8 hours. We expect to be finished with this test around 1:00 AM tomorrow morning 12/12/2008. Following the S-Band Functional, we will run the Payload Combined Functional Test, here again the test takes about 8 hours. So the entire overnight shift will be devoted to the Payload Functional Test. This test will be followed, tomorrow morning, by dumping the SSR and performing the C&DH DSB test.
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