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, June 17, 2009

LRO 1st Launch Attempt at 5:12pm EDT Tomorrow!

LRO Team,

The day is upon us! Almost exactly 24 hours from now we launch. Please take a deep breath and prepare yourselves for tomorrow. Our spacecraft is in perfect health and we have powered her OFF for probably the last time just moments ago. Please be on console at 10am EDT. Earlier today both the Atlas Launch Countdown (RevB) and the LRO Ground Countdowns were sent out as updates to your L&EM Handbooks. This really govern our countdown through liftoff. Tomorrow morning we'll distribute a LRO Early Mission Timeline for a 6/18/2009 launch. We're just finishing practicing the day-slip recycle of a timeline although this hit us before we published the 6/17 version.

Godspeed LRO!
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