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, March 14, 2009

LRO Status


The Orbiter is parked in the +Z down orientation (as shown in photo) and LOLA and LR testing is ongoing both yesterday and today. When this is complete blanket work will again commence and be followed by the LROC Collimator test Monday.

Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009


LRO passes FOR!

Mendacem oportet esse memorem
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

LRO Flight Operations Review Ongoing

The review is nearing the end of day 1 of 2 and going very well in my opinion. Kudos to all who have presented thus far and the entire MOT who made this happen!

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Not The Rolling Stone but Nice



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