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 STK Display Post-MCC1


Many thanks to Jennifer Sager Cosgrove for these awesome displays!!
All STK data is based on actual real-time telemetry data and all windows displayed are 3-D
• This image represents the LRO spacecraft after MCC1.
• The yellow cone pointed at Earth represents the HGA S-band pointed at DSS24 ground station on Earth.
• The blue and purple cones represent ST1 and ST2 (Star Trackers 1 and 2).
• The large LRO ICR Axes view is a close up to the LRO spacecraft showing the SA pointed to the Sun, the HGA pointed at Earth, and various vectors (velocity, Moon, Earth and Sun vectors)
• The two smaller windows are showing where LRO is located relative to the Earth Moon system. The Earth Inertial Axes view shows LRO is about half way to the moon and shows the moons orbit around the Earth and LRO’s orbit relative to the lunar orbit including LRO’s lunar orbit insertion.
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