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.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tuesday, April 28 Activities.


Today we completed closeout of the LOLA instrument. We removed the Aeronex filter, and performed final blanket closeouts.

We have started to make our final approach to fueling the spacecraft. The propulsion crew spent the day getting their test equipment out and set up. The next several days will be dedicated to performing the final propulsion tests before fueling.

The LRO/LCROSS Atlas booster is out at the Vertical Integration Facility. Tomorrow the Centaur stage will be erected! Its all starting to come together.

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface." - Jaron Lanier
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