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.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Balancing Act

LRO Tvac update for December 7, 2008 at 8:45 p.m.



We met the 24 hour requirement for pressure stabilization at 7:45 p.m. We are currently in TC-104 waiting for Thermal to declare Cold Survival Balance. Anticipated completion time for TC-104 is additional 6 to 7 hours. Then we move to TC-105, Cold survival Balance which will be another 4 hours wait. Thermal best guess is; it will be sometimes during morning shift before we complete TC-105 and begin transition to Cold Soak #3.



We have completed:

7:00 p.m. TC-102; C&DH DSB Memory Test

7:08 p.m. TC-104; Set Batter Voltage to 28V

7:15 p.m. TC-104; RW ON, at 0 Torque

7:20 p.m. TC-104; Hardline command/telemetry

7:45 p.m. TC-103; Wait for 24 hour Pressure Stabilization



Massoud






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