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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Getting Ready for TVac: Wed 10/22

Status 10/22: Today we completed blankets that go inside the enclosure. Removed the scaffolding outside the enclosure. Placed RF, MRF, and LR cables inside the "dog house". Removed instrument, star tracker and thruster covers. Ran memory scrub test on C&DH. Currently, dry running the Integrated Payload Functional.

Tomorrow we install the rest of the enclosure panels and hook up cryo lines. Continue to test thermocouple and test heaters. Install test blankets outside the enclosure.

I see the light (or in this case the door) at the end of the tunnel.
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