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 9, 2008

Transition to Cold Ops. Balance is going slower than expected

The transition to Cold Operational Balance is taking longer than expected. It is now 8:45 PM, and we still have not achieved thermal Balance. The thermal team thinks that we may achieve thermal balance in about an hour. From that point we officially need to sit at balance for 4 hours before moving on. The thermal team will review the data and determine if it is possible to shorten the soak. But for now, we are looking at as a minimum a 2 hour soak and most likely a 3-4 hour soak. This means that the test scheduled to follow the soak will be pushed past midnight The transition to Hot Balance will not start before midnight ( most likely 1:00 AMon 12/10/2008); this test (TC-149) takes 1.5 hours and it is followed by the Mini-RF Calibration (TC-150). Having said all of this, it appears that the mission simulation # 30 (TC-151) will probably not start before 2:00 AM tomorrow 12/10/2008
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