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, January 13, 2009

LAMP and LEND Test preps are all nominal

LEND - today quite a bit of LEND flight spare work was accomplished. IKI personnel arrived and unpacked the unit, we did post-unpack visual inspect and cc samples, post-ship functionals with/without AmBe radiation source were performed, and unit was moved into chamber 240 for outgas certification. Unit is currently pumping down.

If we're lucky and LEND is as clean as it looks, we might be able to complete the cert in one day.

LAMP - Vacuum pump setup for CPT-2 End-to-End testing was performed Monday night, and we've currently been at a good steady hivac for almost 24 hours. We'll be able to start E-2-E testing on Thursday morning at 8:30 AM.
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