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, February 15, 2009

LRO Status 2/15/2009


The Launch Day Aliveness Test was successfully run 2nd shift yesterday. 1st shift today is devoted to flight proc checkout from the MOC (in progress). 2nd shift today we will unfold the solar array, connect it to the Orbiter via a test cable, verify the telemetry, and do an illumination test of the solar array. Photo above is the LRO Control Room in Astrotech Building 1. Orbiter is actually in Building 2.

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