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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

LRO Status 6/30/2009 9:00am EDT

Spacecraft commissioning has been proceeding with the major activities being the calibration of the High Gain Antenna System and the Gyros. This involves slewing the antenna and in the spacecraft in a series of motions to determine and then adjust for the remaining alignment errors that could not be determined on the ground in 1 g. We also have software table updates that we will load and test that we had planned for after completion of our LOI maneuvers. In parallel we are preparing for the activation of the instruments later this week and next week.
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