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.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Instrument Commissioning Phase Begins!


The above STK image is of LRO on DOY 184.

Today we officially began our Instrument Commissioning Phase. We held our first Daily Planning Meeting with all Instrument Teams and Subsystem representatives. LROC was turned on and is currently taking images, while LOLA Laser 1 is lasing for 24 hours. Our plan is to switch to Laser 2 tomorrow and start DLRE activation on Sunday.


The LRO Spacecraft continues to perform extremely well in her commissioning orbit.
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