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 Status at 171 04:40 GMT

Today at 6:16pm, our mid-course correction (MCC-1) burn was successfully completed. The burn was 38 seconds long. All systems operated nominally throughout the burn. FDF is collecting tracking data and preparing for LOI maneuver planning.


We have just completed LEND and CRaTER turn-on activities. 1st science files for CRaTER have been sent to the SOC for processing. 1st science files for LEND have been sent to the SOCs for processing. Transfer courtesy of DMS.


Later this evening we will be performing a mini-gyro calibration in preparation for LOI.


Special thanks to Laurie Leshin for stopping by this evening to feed the troops....we truly enjoyed the delicious pizzas!!


LRO is now 224,324 km from the Earth.

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