Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Update

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, October 26, 2008

T-vac Status 10.26.2008 2:26pm

Chamber below 100 Torr & TB-16 is complete.

Chamber Pressure is:

290 Torr

Start Pump Down 10/26/08 13:34

We have finished the Launch Day Proc (TB-14), confirmed the Orbiter is in the proper configuration, and started pumping down the chamber (TB-15) . Leslie

TVAC Update Oct 26, 12:15 pm

Still working through Launch Day proc (TB-14). Having issues with CFDP. We believe it is on the ground side. Once this is fixed, we should be ready to pump down. Leslie

Welcome!

Aloha LRO Team - welcome to Week/Circle One on our descent....

Saturday, October 25, 2008

T-Vac Status - 10/25/08 @9:10pm

We completed taking a series of LROC WAC images for the LROC team. We moved onto the Lunar Eclipse Test procedure, currently ~%50 done. We plan to run some LROC background image procedures later and power down for the evening.

Status - 10/25/08 @8pm

We completed LEND functional with radiation source. We attempted to load the ITOS patch, but there were problems with the new version with telemetry distribution. We reverted back to the previous release. We plan to load the new version during the chamber break.

We are currently running LROC WAC images and will move onto the Lunar Eclipse proc shortly.

T-Vac Status 10.25.08 7:35pm

We are on-track for running the Launch Day Procedure (TB-14) at 7am tomorrow with chamber pump down (TB-15) predicted for 9am. Currently we are completing the LROC background checks and expect to finish up this evening by 11pm.