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.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

LRO Completion of Commissioning

A review was held yesterday, September 9th, during which it was verified LRO is ready to proceed to the 50km polar mapping orbit and begin the prime mission. On September 15th LRO will execute the Mission Orbit Insertion (MOI) propulsive maneuver and establish the nominal mission orbit. LRO is ready to begin the prime mission, the spacecraft, the instruments, and the ground system are performing flawlessly!

Upcoming next week NASA will hold a "First Light" LRO press conference. Watch for the NASA media advisory which will have the details. Once announced it will also be posted here.

LRO is also preparing to support the LCROSS impact on October 9th, having already providing observations and data to aid in the final LCROSS target selection.
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