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, June 21, 2009

LRO Status 6/21/200 10:17am EDT

A calm and boring day thus far (this is good). Gyro mini-cal was completed. Another notable that actually occurred last night was a successful Ka-band file download to WS-1 at 100 Mbps! We are almost at lunar distance and have not yet even calibrated the High Gain Antenna System yet, an activity planned during spacecraft commissioning.
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