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, January 4, 2009

C&DH Hardware Functional Complete

C&DH Hardware Functional is complete and we're just setting up for Orbiter Trending Run#3, followed by the C&DH DSB Memory Test which will run through the night.

Overall this keeps us within about an hour of the schedule currently posted at the bottom of the page.

Tomorrow's "Mini-RF Day" currently still looking good for a 5:30-6:00ish kickoff, but Mini-RF team should call-in to systems in the control room at 301-286-8276 to doublecheck in the morning before coming in.
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Completion of the C&DH Hardware Test Delayed

Due to problems with the ground system (data disks too full), The C&DH Hardware Test completion has been delayed. We now expect to complete the test around 5:00 PM. All tests planned for this evening will be pushed back by at least an hour.
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C&DH Hardware test is underway

We completed the Software Controlled Heater test at Noon today 1/4/2009. After about 30 min. of clean up and reconfiguration, we started the C&DH Hardware Test; this should take about 4 hours, finishing up at 4:30 PM. After which we will run the Orbiter Trending Test for 2 hours, and then the C&DH DSB Memory Test, which will require another 8 hours, finishing up around 2:00 AM. So the start of the MINI RF Test is currently estimated to be 2:00 AM, tomorrow morning 1/5/2009.
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Software Controlled Heater Tests underway

We started the software controlled heater tests at 10:00 AM today,1/4/09. Heater tests should take until about 12:30 PM, at which time we will start the C&DH hardware tests. Orbiter trending is scheduled to start at 4:00 PM
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Safing Test - Status

We completed 33% of the safing tests. Found one error with RTS #48, otherwise, everything else has been good. We just started the 2hr test that will verify AP 69 and 8. This should be complete by 9am. At this point, Part A of the safing tests will be complete.
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Status Update - 01/04/09 @5:30am

Continuing safing tests, we completed approximately 21% of the tests so far. Plan is to continue until either 8 or 9 am.
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Safing Tests Started

Safing tests have started at 1:30am. Safing tests will run to 9am in the morning.
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Orbiter Trending #2

System Stress Test completed at 11:40PM. Running Orbiter Trending (approx 1 hour). Next up: Safing, Safing and more Safing (approx 12 hours).
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