Announcements

Operations Journal: Digital Elevation Models (DEM)

My name's Tawny, and I am one of the ASU undergraduate student workers at LROC. One of the many fun tasks I get to do is to produce Digital Elevation Models (DEM) of the lunar...

Published on 25 Aug 2009

LROC Operations Journal

This week we launched our brand new Operations Journal where we will chronicle the activities and accomplishments of our student workers, staff and scientists.

Published on 19 Aug 2009

Operations Journal Kick Off

Published on 19 Aug 2009

Operations Journal: Commissioning

I would like to be the first to welcome you to our new LROC Operations Journal

Published on 17 Aug 2009

LROC Commissioning Operations begin today!

LROC has begun commissioning operations!

Published on 03 Jul 2009

The LROC Public Targeting Interface is now live!

Share in the adventure as LRO leads the way towards returning humans to deep space!

Published on 29 Jun 2009

Nadir pointing!

LRO is now in nadir pointing mode (looking straight down at the Moon). Another key milestone on the path to instrument activation.

Published on 28 Jun 2009

LRO is now in commissioning orbit!

The LRO OPS Team successfully commanded a 231 second burn this morning that placed LRO into its 30 km x 199 km (19 mile x 124 mile) commissioning phase orbit.

Published on 27 Jun 2009

LRO in lunar orbit!

This morning the LRO Team at Goddard Space Flight Center commanded LRO to execute a 40-minute burn that placed LRO into lunar orbit!

Published on 23 Jun 2009

LRO Launches Successfully

LRO, carrying the LROC and LCROSS instruments was successfully launched at 5:32 U.S. Eastern. Congratulations!

Published on 18 Jun 2009