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 27, 2009

LRO in Commisioning Orbit about the Moon


At 8:34am EDT today LRO initiated LOI-5 which was a 230.8 second burn (36 m/s). This placed LRO in a 31x199km 90.2 degree inclination polar orbit. For those interested the orbital position of LRO after we acquired her on the ground when she came into view again is given in the telemetry screen snap. Please note ALL vectors are in the ECI coordinate system. Tomorrow we will transition LRO from solar-inertial pointing to lunar nadir pointing and begin spacecraft commissioning activities.
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