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.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Upcoming Plan

The near term plan for operations is to set the SAS rack to 4.33 A and transition the chamber to hot thermal balance. In the morning we will also enable the LOLA laser for its balance. We will stay in this configuration until LOLA and SAS balance (12 hours). We will then transition the power down to 3.8 A and start orbit cycling SAS for a power balance. Then we will warm the ITP, PROP, CRaTER, and LEND to soak and leave the +Y IM panels and +Z panels at balance. This will take 8-10 hours. After the rehearsal is complete, we will do the payload functional once CRaTER, LEND, and ITP reach soak.

Note Trick is allowing me to utter decimate the current plan in order to achieve 2 more balance points.

The thermal czar [note the lack of capitalization implies there are more of us]
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