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, April 16, 2009

Getting Ready for Launch.

The LRO spacecraft is undergoing final configurations for launch.

On Tues 4/14, the high gain antenna boom was lowered for final testing and the last trending run was performed. The final transmitter test was successfully completed. No more RF transmissions now, until after we launch.

On Wed 4/15, a series of range of motion tests were performed on both the solar array gimbal and the high gain antenna gimbal. Both mechanisms performed nominally.

Today, the high gain antenna boom was raised in preparation for the final stowing. Installation of the release actuators for the high gain and solar array systems was completed.

“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.” Wayne Dyer
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