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.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Moving on, or just around again?

TC-200, Mission Rehearsal #1, completed at 7:00 pm tonight when the MOC turned control of the Orbiter back over to I&T. (It took a couple extra hours to dump all the spacecraft data to the ground.)

At 7:10 pm, we began the inserted testing to perform the MCC and LOI burns. These were completed at 9:40 pm.

TC-201, the Simulation Cleanup, was executed from 9:41 – 10:12 pm.

TC-202, another Payload Integrated Functional, promptly started at 10:37 pm (and should run till about 5:40 am on 12/17).
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