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.

Monday, June 22, 2009

LRO Status & Upcoming Events

The preliminary work leading to our LOI has begun. All spacecraft systems are healthy. Below is a timeline of key upcoming events:

6/22 10:33pm EDT - Final LOI Maneuver Plan Generation & Verification
6/22 11:05pm EDT - LOI-E (Engineering Burn ~30sec)
6/23 1:05am EDT - Load LOI-1 Maneuver Tables
6/23 4:00am EDT - Shift Handover Briefing
6/23 4:47am EDT - Pre-LOI-1 Configuration Verification Begins
6/23 5:47am EDT - LOI-1 Burn Begins
6/23 6:27am EDT - LOI-1 Burn Complete, LRO in lunar orbit
6/23-6/27 - LOI-2 thru LOI-5 burns, approximately one per day.
6/27 - 30x216km commissioning polar orbit established
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