LCROSS Flight Director's Blog

September 2009
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During Our Second Trip Around Earth: August 1 - August 22 Sep 28, 2009 08:18:13 AM | System User
 
With our first orbit around the Earth behind us, the Flight Team team looked optimistically ahead to a number of upcoming events, including two science instrument calibrations, and two Trajectory Correction Maneuvers, TCM 5b and 5c. Thankfully for us, the schedule of planned events for the next 34 days promised to be a little more relaxed than for the previous 42 days.
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Our First Orbit Around the Earth: June 23 - July 30 Sep 22, 2009 02:45:06 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
 
Our first trip around the Earth was packed with activity. Having just completed Lunar Swingby, the team mitigated our initial spacecraft issues, settled into a slightly less busy DSN contact schedule, then set to the task of baking water from the Centaur exterior, and performing our largest Trajectory Correction Maneuver.
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