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, June 18, 2009

LRO Flight Status

We has performed the propulsion thruster one-shot test which checks out the rocket engines. The Orbiter is performing beautifully. The flight thus far has been essentially flawless. We have confirmed a very accurate injection vector from the Atlas and very low tip-off. Many thanks to Atlas!

After this post the LRO PM will go off line and head to the plane back to GSFC.
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