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, January 8, 2009

RF Comm KA-Band Functional Test is Complete

At 11:30 AM this morning, 1/8/2009, we completed the Ka-Band Functional Test. We need about 30 minutes to reconfigure and set up for the Trending #7. This test should take about an hour, so we will be ready to start the Integrated Payload functional at about 1:00 PM today.

The Integrated Payload Functional Test normally takes 7 hours, but we will not be running the Mini-RF Test, so we will be able to cut an hour out of the test time. We expect to finish the Integrated payload functional around 7:00 PM.

Following the Integrated Payload Functional Test, we will run the Mini-RF Free Radiating Test (3 hours), that should take us to 10:00 PM.

One final Trending Test, (power down) #8, will complete the evening, by around midnight.

We are currently baselining the Phasing Test-Part B, for day shift tomorrow, 1/9/2009. The starting time is TBD(somewhere between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM), depending on the availability of the required systems engineers. We would like to start at 7:00 AM, but if that is not possible we will perform some battery blanket removal tasks before beginning the Safing Test.
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