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, June 20, 2009

LRO GNC's LroCam


Many thanks to Neerav Shah for this awesome image:
Here’s a cool screenshot of GNC’s in-house developed tool called LroCam. It’s during our current Gyro Cal slew. You’ll see a few different vectors – there are the (x,y,z) which represent the current attitude of the spacecraft. And there are the (x tgt, y tgt, z tgt) which represent the target attitude. For the –Y 30 degree slew you see that the ‘y’ and ‘y tgt’ match exactly while the x and z do not, indicating that the spacecraft is slewing.
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