Apollo Images from LRO!

At this site--> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html The one above is Apollo 14

Congratulations to the LROC Team and the entire LRO Team for making this possible!

First Mini-RF Images!

The first images from Mini-RF, the synthetic aperture radar on LRO, is posted here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/news/radar_tandem_searches.html

LRO Commisioning Orbit

For those interested in such things, LRO"s commissioning orbit remains very stable. The plot shows the phase-plot of the commissioning orbit for 90 days from the July 12th OD solution. The polar plot is Eccentricity (radial) vs Argument of Periapsis (angular). The orbit evolution remains bounded with AoP near 270 (periselene over south pole) and eccentricity is the neighborhood of 0.04. Eccentricity does very throughout each lunar cycle though.

LRO July 10-12 Status

The above STK image is of LRO on DOY 193

The LRO Spacecraft continues to perform nominally in its commissioning orbit.

On Friday, we updated the Safing tables and Safing RTSs as was planned prior to launch. Spacecraft ephemeris validation tables, ST and Gyro Cal tables were also uploaded.

With the Mini-RF data collection start on Sunday evening, all instruments have collected or are collecting data.