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.

Friday, June 26, 2009

LOI-4 Successfully Completed


At 8:25am EDT today LRO executed LOI-4. This 10 minute propulsion burn placed LRO in a 200km circular polar orbit about the Moon. Now in this low circular orbit operations will begin to resemble our nominal mission with ground station passes coming and going on a regular frequency as we pass behind the Moon each orbit. During certain days every month the ground can see LRO for her entire orbit of the Moon. This is illustrated in the diagram above.
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