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 Update

LRO has slowed to a crawl relative to the earth (245 m/s,547 mph) and it at essentially lunar distance (352000km,219000mi) When the moon catches up to us early tomorrow morning we'll execute our LOI-1 burn to capture into our initial orbit.

A note to those leaving comments: This BLOG is updated by the LRO Project Manager and his Deputy at this point. Unfortunately neither of us have time to moderate and reply/respond/post the comments. I do read them as they flow through my inbox but for now that is as far as they go. Sorry.
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