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 Last Power Down (Hopefully)

We powered on the spacecraft to verify the communication to the spacecraft. The orbiter appears to be operating nominally. We had a problem with one of the backup lines in the comm rack but we have a working configuration now.

We just powered down the spacecraft for hopefully, our last time. Just ponder that one!

All launch support personnel should be on station at 10am for tomorrow's launch.

GO LRO!
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