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.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Aliveness Test Successfully Completed!

We successfully ran the Launch Day Aliveness Test in the real launch configuration. We had a problem with the Solar Array Simulator but were able to work around it. All subsystems reported nominal operation. We received the EELV interleaved data and ran on internal power for a short time.

We are still on track for a 5am start on Monday to run the Aliveness test as part of the vehicle integrated system test (IST). I will update the blog if anything changes and send out e-mail.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)