Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Update: LRO Sunday Update

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 22, 2009

LRO Sunday Update

Today was spent with the LRO MOT operating the Orbiter from the MOC at GSFC as we tested Flight Procs. We are making excellent progress and expect to wrap this up over the next week as the coming week's schedule has a number of additional shifts devoted to this.

Also today the LAMP team started their GSE ion vacuum pumps in preperation for their end-to-end test tomorrow night. It is pumping down nicely.

More news on Monday...

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