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, June 15, 2009

LRO\LCROSS Launch Day Update

LRO Team,

Late this afternoon it was established that the only scenario in which 6/18 would be a LRO\LCROSS available launch day was one in which the Shuttle scrubbed their launch at about L-4hr or earlier. That translates into an answer about 12:45 am Wednesday morning (just past midnight Tuesday night). We all hope the Shuttle will be successful and I think odds are it will be so it is probable our launch days will be June 19 and June 20. I will update you, and the BLOG, in the wee hours tomorrow night. Plan for June 18,19,20 until informed differently but let's all hope the Shuttle is a successful and we are left with June 19 and 20th.

LRO is go for launch and we have no open issues! Be Ready!

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
John Ruskin
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