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.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

LRO's Great 4th of July Weekend


The above STK image is of LRO on DOY 186

LRO and it’s totally awesome team had a great 4th of July weekend!!

On July 4th, besides enjoying an awesome cookout at Building 32, we switched from Laser 1 to Laser 2 on LOLA and performed a HGA calibration.

On July 5th, we turned Diviner on, set LOLA to Flight Software Control, turned off Laser 2 on LOLA, and completed our last gyro calibration.

As of 12:50 pm EDT on July 5, 2009, LRO has 5 of its 7 instruments powered on - CRaTER, LEND, LROC, LOLA and DLRE. We are also on orbit 135 as of 3:30pm EDT.

Working hard for LRO,
Cathy and Rick
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