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.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mid-Week Update

Monday we loaded an updated RTS5 onto the Orbiter and tested it. Also on Monday we performed some loose-end Start Tracker tests and worked on procs to support upcoming SIMs.

Tuesday LRO executed SIM#23 which was an integrated Launch Day Simulation. This was a very successful activity during which the Ground Networks, the MOC, the LSR team, the KSC support team, and of course the Orbiter were used to practice the entire sequence of launch day countdown activities up to launch. The Team handled the injected anomalies and green cards extremely well. Congratulations to all involved.

Work, both at KSC and at GSFC, now focuses on preparing for Mission Rehearsal #5 (MR#5) which is a Launch thru LOI rehearsal. MR#5 is a repeat of our first rehearsal, MR#2, and is the last major Rehearsal we have planned.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. - Wernher von Braun
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