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.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

LRO Progress

Today we completed the LEND Functional with the radioactive source. Yesterday the modifications to the thermistor circuit were successfully completed to eliminate the 5 Hz interference problem. Kudos to the electrical and thermal blanket team for developing and implementing an optimal solution to this small but significant problem. The testing today showed LEND is healthy and further confirmed the 5 HZ noise is gone. The LAMP Functional was also completed after the installation of the LAMP vacuum pumping system. LAMP too is flight ready. Tomorrow flight procs will be run and checked out by the MOC at GSFC on the Orbiter here at Astrotech. The MOT is pressing hard toward FORR and tomorrows work will us bring near completion of flight proc checkouts.
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