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.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

LRO Progress

Today we completed the LEND Functional with the radioactive source. Yesterday the modifications to the thermistor circuit were successfully completed to eliminate the 5 Hz interference problem. Kudos to the electrical and thermal blanket team for developing and implementing an optimal solution to this small but significant problem. The testing today showed LEND is healthy and further confirmed the 5 HZ noise is gone. The LAMP Functional was also completed after the installation of the LAMP vacuum pumping system. LAMP too is flight ready. Tomorrow flight procs will be run and checked out by the MOC at GSFC on the Orbiter here at Astrotech. The MOT is pressing hard toward FORR and tomorrows work will us bring near completion of flight proc checkouts.
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Another Sim Successfully Completed


We successfully completed our Mission Simulation today that exercised the Early Mission Timeline. Our team also did a great job working with the injected anomalies and running through our contingency procedures. Nice work everyone!!
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LRO Early Mission Simulation


Today LRO and it's totally awesome team are simulating part of the early mission timeline from separation. Several contingencies will be injected as part of the timeline. The team and orbiter are ready to go.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

News for 2-18-09

Completed Orbiter Functional late last night. Everything went exceptionally well. Today we are supporting MOC procedure checkout. We are all giddy with anticipation for the Payload Integrated Functional later tonight.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LRO runs the Orbiter Functional Test at KSC 0n 2/17/2009

Preprations for the Orbiter Functional Test began at 7:00 AM today 2/17/2009. As of 4:30 PM, 2/17/2009, we have completed almost 9 hours of the test and are on track to complete the Functional just after midnight tonight.
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Monday, February 16, 2009

LRO Status 2/16/2009

The Orbiter was configured for the Orbiter Functional Test scheduled for tomorrow beginning at 7am. We will shortly fire the SAS NEAs, perform the HGAS Pop&Catch, walk HGAS down and reinstall the HGA Hat-Coupler, and configure the GDS. This will complete the preparations for tomorrow.

The link (click the title) with this posting will take you to a KSC page that inlcudes video feed from Astrotech where LRO is.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

LRO Status 2/15/2009


The Launch Day Aliveness Test was successfully run 2nd shift yesterday. 1st shift today is devoted to flight proc checkout from the MOC (in progress). 2nd shift today we will unfold the solar array, connect it to the Orbiter via a test cable, verify the telemetry, and do an illumination test of the solar array. Photo above is the LRO Control Room in Astrotech Building 1. Orbiter is actually in Building 2.

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