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 6, 2009

LR is currently in CPT#2 performing the GN&C Functional Tests

We completed the CSS functional test around 2:30 PM today 1/6/2009. We are currently running the ACS Phasing test which takes about 3 hours. This is to be followed by the RWA Functional Test (3 hours), and the PDE Functional Test (3 hours). These activities will take us to about midnight, at which time we will power down and remove the Solar Array extention cables from the Gimbal assembly.

At this point we will power up and run the Trending #5 (2 hours), followed by the GCE HW functional Test, which is expected to start around 2:00-3:00 AM (4 hours). The GCE HW test is expected to be complete by about 6:00 to 7:00 AM, Wednesday morning.

At 7:00 AM, we will commence with the LOLA tests #1 through #10, which should take up the entire first shift, with a expected completion time of about 4:00 to 5:00 PM Wednesday afternoon, 1/7/2009.
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