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, November 19, 2008

TC-35 is complete, TC-36 underway

We have completed TC-35, a series of LROC images with and without decon heater on. We are executing TC-36, which will complete when thermal declares that the spacecraft has reached cold soak. Estimates are we'll achieve cold soak sometime during first shift Wednesday.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist.

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