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, December 7, 2008

12/7/08 A New Day

Due to the issue with the SAS rack (PRB-734) today's plan is roughly 8 hours behind our original schedule.

DLRE Portrait (TC-100) will complete around 11:30AM.
Load FSW kernel (TC-101) will start around 11:30AM and maybe finish by 1:00PM.
DSB Memory Test (TC-102) will start around 1:00PM and maybe finish around 5:00PM.

Wait for 24 hours for pressure (TC-103) is a placeholder for waiting until 12/7/08 7:44PM EDT. The chamber reached 1E-5 Torr on 12/6/08 at 7:44PM. The chamber must be at 1E-5 Torr for 24-hours before any high voltage can be turned on. We can't proceed to TC-104 before 24-hours has elapsed. So TC-103 is going to be either short or long depending upon how the rest of the day goes.

With any luck we will finish TC-102 before the 24-hour mark, and we'll be back on schedule. The waiting time of TC-103 will just be shorter than originally planned.

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